Being a codependent is real. It’s crippling and something to not get confused with being a good parent, lover, or friend.
If you give up little pieces of yourself and redirect a well thought out plan for your life for companionship, you’ve chosen the wrong company. We are meant to love, but we are not meant to have the life siphoned out of us to BE loved.
Love well, have boundaries, practice saying no with kindness, and learn to be okay with loving from afar when you need to. If that means feeling a temporary rejection in exchange for lasting inner peace, that’s okay.
“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
Deeper Than a Puddle 