Codependency's Effect on the Family
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Codependency's Effect on the Family
When the parents or caregivers of a family are locked in addiction and codependency, the whole family suffers. All energy is focused on the addict to the exclusion of everyone else. Children learn early not to think, talk, or feel.
Lies are told to cover missed work, forgotten appointments, and embarrassing events created by the addict. Uncertainty rules the household because members are either in chaos or are fearful of when the chaos will start again.
Addicts and codependents are usually angry and, either directly or indirectly, the children receive the brunt of that anger. Children that grow up in these conditions carry lifelong emotional baggage and often repeat, with their own children, the pattern of addiction/codependency that they hated so much.
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