The Missing Piece Theory of Codependence
<p>Once upon a time, a heart was made. All the other hearts were whole. But this heart was missing a piece. While all the other hearts could connect and disconnect with ease, this heart could not. Connecting felt like Heaven. Disconnecting felt like Hell. The heart learned only connecting could save it from Hell just as disconnecting sent it to Hell. This is the experience of the Codependent.</p>
<p>Codependents do not experience those they love as mere people, but as those who alternately rescue them from, or doom them to, the Hell of being alone. Every person the Codependent dates takes their turn being a gatekeeper to Heaven — until they are accused of abandoning their post, at which time they abruptly turn into a gatekeeper to Hell. (Some relationships involve endless discussion over who is whose gatekeeper to which realm.)</p>
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