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wanttobehealthy i don't think i realized until right now just how codependent my way of communicating can be. offering more than is needed or asked for and then being upset when the person that info is offered to expects me to fix their problem is all caused bc of my offering more than is needed.
the 'don't do for others what they can do for themselves' has taken on a whole new meaning.
Thank you for this. I still resist the codependent label... But I hadn't even considered this. Probably part of the reason my posts are usually soooooo long. *sigh* bleah