When I think of codependency I think of my mother. She does so many things for others that she isn't taking care of her emotional and other needs. When someone explains a stressful situation she immediately starts thinking of ways to make their lives easier, to her own detrement. She doesn't listen and validate there problems she starts fixing. If you do things for others that you really don't want to do, then feel resentful about it, you may be codependent. I do this often, think if I don't do something I will upset someone, so I do it but I'm not doing it with love. Laundry, taking care of children, packing H lunch etc I don't think go into codependency. It's all the other stuff. I'm also about halfway through codependency no more. I read it a year ago and thought I needed to read it again.
