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Homeless 46 year old daughter and a son in jail
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 698919" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Jodie, I relate to your history.....I became codependent as a result of the abuses in my own childhood......over-giving, enabling and rescuing became who I used to be. It took a lot of work for me to pull myself out of that place and I still require help at times......I didn't get the love and support I needed as a child and it was, like you, painful......so I gave to others what I didn't get......except I forgot to give that same level of love and support to myself. Now that I'm retired and no longer enabling, I am learning how to give to myself, how to focus on myself and make myself the priority. I've been at it awhile now........amazingly, it is not always easy, I have to turn the tide of 60 odd years.....but I am so darn determined to do it..........my time is limited and I don't want to spend the rest of it abandoning myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 698919, member: 13542"] Jodie, I relate to your history.....I became codependent as a result of the abuses in my own childhood......over-giving, enabling and rescuing became who I used to be. It took a lot of work for me to pull myself out of that place and I still require help at times......I didn't get the love and support I needed as a child and it was, like you, painful......so I gave to others what I didn't get......except I forgot to give that same level of love and support to myself. Now that I'm retired and no longer enabling, I am learning how to give to myself, how to focus on myself and make myself the priority. I've been at it awhile now........amazingly, it is not always easy, I have to turn the tide of 60 odd years.....but I am so darn determined to do it..........my time is limited and I don't want to spend the rest of it abandoning myself. [/QUOTE]
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