Codependency: what characterizes it?

When they talk about codependency, experts in the field point out that it is an emotional problem characterized by obsessive affective dependence on another person and their relationship with them.

That means it is codependency it is a type of dependence on another person.

How to identify it?

The codependency it means forgetting about yourself in order to live according to your partner’s needs, says sexologist and psychotherapist Eliet Rojas (@sexologiayparejas).

In these cases, the person is prone forgive everything, does not set limits and justifies discussions.

But that’s not all, it’s hard for him to bear that too decisions owns and even normalizes abuse. Something to pay attention to.

According to Rojas, those people probably are early abandonmentThey learned to keep quiet and suppress themselves.

A person with codependencyHe does not know how to say “no”, he perceives anxiety as a routine and does not respect private space.

What the expert also points out is that these people hide their problems privately.

To consider

Codependency is a way of not taking care of yourself, add psychology experts.

It is a defense mechanism that, although, can make them feel more short term insuranceit lowers self-esteem and worsens relationships in the long run.

According to experts in the field, the origin emotional codependency in the couple it is found in the kind of attachment bonds they had with caregiver figures.

Obviously if they are the people who followed them on theirs childhood be unpredictable, absent or rejecting, they are very likely to develop relationships.

In order to overcome this, the person must be invited to re-establish true contact with himself.