All posts filed under “Codependency”

January 29, 2015

Not Squandering the Gift

As some of you may already know, my mother’s health has been in a long, slow decline for…well, a very long time. As some of you may already know, my relationship with my family is complex – isn’t that the way with familial relationships in… Read More

January 5, 2012

Wendy Gets Wise

Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter. “How awful!” she said, but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been trying to stick it on with soap. How exactly like… Read More

October 19, 2011

I Has An Epiphany

I’m feeling epiphanated. Yes, that’s a made up word – it means “a caffeinated epiphany” – but portmanteau creation is not the point of this post. I stopped obsessing about romantic relationships in the summer of 2008. I took a year-and-a-day off of being focused… Read More

August 21, 2011

The Key Ingredient

 Some rights reserved by tonymz I’ve started the work of recovery, and it has opened a door I didn’t know existed. You may expect that skeletons were behind this door; but no, those skeletons dance out in the open, disguised as a normal life. What I did… Read More

July 30, 2011

The Road to Life

John William Waterhouse: The Danaïdes – 1903 ‎”Is there another destiny for you? Do you choose a road that will take you to a place foreign to your own becoming? This question is sincere, it is not meant to deceive. No matter which road you… Read More