Do you find yourself making lots of sacrifices for your partner’s happiness, but not getting much in return? If that kind of one-sided pattern sounds like yours, you don’t have to feel trapped as it’s a pattern of behaviour that is dependent on approval from someone else for your own self-worth and identity and this can be changed with the right help and support.

You can usually find that your own sense of purpose in life depends on you making extreme sacrifices to satisfy your partner’s needs, this can often begin in childhood when children are often taught to put their own needs to one side to please a difficult parent, and it sets them up for a long-standing pattern of trying to get love and care from a difficult person.

Watch out for these signs that you might be in a co-dependent relationship:

• Unable to find satisfaction in your life outside of a specific person?
• Recognising unhealthy behaviors in your partner BUT stay with him or her in spite of them?
• Giving support to your partner at the cost of your own mental, emotional, and physical health?
• Have you been convinced that there is something fundamentally wrong with you?

If you need support in changing this pattern then contact me and I can offer that support….