Originally Posted by
fgh55 
I'm really finding all of this interesting and helpful. I'm going to bring this up with my counsellor next week. I've been having a few phone sessions with a counsellor which is somewhat helpful. I have just been doing some reading on codependency. I'm not sure that I'm totally convinced that I have all of the characteristics. But I'm willing to explore this further. I don't find myself to be needy or controlling. But I wonder waft my BF would say. Really thank you for all of this info. It's very helpful.
When my qualifier got into meth I got out almost at once but I had seen it coming from a long way off as he came from a pretty messed up background.
Because my involvement with an addict was short and my life never got really crazy, some of the codependency info doesn't ring true for me. However, I certainly have the codependent characteristics that made this man attractive to me. Like Alcoholicwife, I wouldn't have been interested in a heathy man.