Stunned

I think your assessment of your part in the co-dependency is accurate and that is tough to see if you have that tendency.

You feel good when you can rescue. She allows you to do it.

A healthy person doesn't do either.

Not a damn thing you can do for her except don't play the game anymore.

She will find the next person to play be sure of that and to move on from you she has has to be the victim.

Nothing to rescue her from if you're not the bad guy right?

See it for what it is. The cycle she will likely live until she decides not to.

Don't become a participant or let yourself be defined by this cycle she is making.

Don't get sucked into it again.


My goal is to some day be the person my dog thinks I am