Codependents react. This means your actions are predominantly determined by outside influences. A few words in a text message can hit you like a cyclone and blow you off course from what you’re doing, feeling, or thinking. It destroys your mood and what you think of yourself. It can ruin your day or even your week. You take personally what others say as a reflection of you. This instantly surrenders your self-esteem and emotions to whatever or whoever has triggered them. You lose your center because your Self is other-defined, and your locus of control is others. This makes you easy to
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