At Solutions for Change, we encourage all of our students to embrace their independence and confidently take control of their lives. We also value the essential role communities and support systems play in helping people overcome life’s greatest challenges. In order to truly overcome, we must own our independence and trust in the relationships that build us up. Our Solutions Academy courses teach that positive relationships should be freeing, not constricting.
There is a difference, however, between supportive relationships and relationships that enable unhealthy behaviors. When two or more people allow each other to maintain destructive tendencies, their relationship becomes codependent. Codependency is the enemy of freedom and progress in friendships, families, marriages and other relationships.
To build up trusting, supportive communities, our students learn to stop codependent behaviors. Today, we want to share the basics of codependency—what it is, how it keeps people trapped in bad situations and how to overcome it. When we see codependency in our lives, we can make a conscious effort to create relationships that hold us accountable, make us happy and let us build our independence.
