Codependency: Do You Recognize The Early Warning Signs Of Codependency?

Relationships are complicated, and there's no doubt about it. But it seems like we are living in a time where we have become increasingly aware of how vital these personal interactions are to us. From having a partner who we can spend our life with to having friends who will support us no matter what, relationships are necessary because human beings are social beings in nature.

In addition, relationships teach us many important values and lessons about ourselves and others, so this also means that without these interactions, we would probably have a lot of trouble trying to decipher the world that surrounds us.
Relationships also make us more grounded and compassionate; they make us stay in touch with each other's needs, and they also make us feel empathy with -and towards- the community we live in and the individuals that belong to it.

However, it is also true that relationships can be tough to nurture and to maintain, especially if our self-esteem and self-worth are not congruent with how we see and present ourselves to others. So, I will now like to ask you a couple of questions, and I will also ask you not to overthink your answers. This way, you will be able to see how your real emotions come to the surface.
Are you often thinking about sacrificing something you genuinely love in order to please someone else? Maybe you want to satisfy your partner, your son or daughter, or even a friend?.

It doesn't matter who that person you would like to please is, because the reality is that you would like to please everyone but yourself. You then start feeling like you put everything you have to make the other person happy, but you are not getting anything in return. It's also as if you are in an irregular relationship pattern where you feel trapped and cannot escape. It's almost like you are a hamster exercising in one of those hamster wheels, and you do not know how to stop, so you keep going and going trying to satisfy the other person.

Now I would love to know if you have ever considered yourself as a codependent person? Or perhaps you know, or you are with someone who is codependent? What's more, the opposite can occur as well, and maybe you think you are an independent person who can get things done by yourself without the need to involve someone else? Because let's face it, you can do everything you set your mind to and more.
But, in reality, this can all be a farce as well, because you may be dependent on another person without needing to acknowledge it, as it would mean that you need to work on yourself.

If you have answered yes to any of the previous questions, then you are probably a codependent person. Or perhaps you are not codependent, but your partner is. Either way, this is a reality that you can no longer hide because these answers are all possible signs that you or someone close to you is codependent