Co-dependents feel out of control

Your life in a co-dependent relationship may feel completely out of control because you are living with someone who has a problem with alcohol/drugs and your life will never be the same.  Each day you wait not knowing when that other shoe will fall, but you know it will fall.

What do you do when you are surrounded by challenge, change, uncertainty and catastrophe?  Most co-dependents try to cope as best as they can which means the focus is on the alcoholic/addict.  Your days will be spent trying different ways to get them to quit. You will ultimately see that the pleading, begging, suggesting, encouraging, praying and coercing do not work.  But there is another way!

Tags: addict, alcoholic, co-dependent, co-dependent relationship