Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

by Melody Beattie

When I say I’m codependent, I don’t mean I’m a little bit codependent. I mean I’m really codependent. I don’t marry men who stop for a few beers after work. I marry men who won’t work.

“It’s with everyone: my parents, my children, guests in my home. Somehow, I just seem to lose myself in other people. I get enmeshed in them.”