Originally Posted by
DesertEyes 
Not typically. What happens is that people who already have some kind of dysfunction in their mind will marry an alkie and then _also_ become co-dependents.
The "stereotype" co-dependent is a perfectly healthy person who gets "sucked in" by the subtle manipulations of the alkie. A few years of that and the codependency is in full bloom. If the codependent gets into some kind of recovery they "get well" fairly quick and return to the perfectly healthy person they were originally.
Mike
Moderator, SR
Thank you, Mike. When I think of some of the stories she's told about her childhood, I think she had a lot of issues even then. Jealousy, feeling victimized, self-loathing. Maybe her family was not as perfect as she portrays, although her mother was actually awarded Mother of the Year awards, so who knows if it was her family or something in herself.