hypatia42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Dependents_Anonymous

One organization that helped me become who I am today.

I have an aversion to codependency in the same way some people have to cigarette smoke do. Hehe, my aversion to cigarette smoke is directly related to my own inability to breathe around it. Given all the people I know who have died from it you'd think ... I digress. Still, I do my best to be up front with people about this aversion in me. I think it is possible that sometimes I miss the mark in communicating just how little willing I am to put up with it from those around me.

It probably says something about me that I require people around me to be independent and communicate their needs/wants clearly. The Jeff Foxworthy bit about "I'm cold" disgusts me. Knowing that so many women out there feel that that sort of "training" is favorable and something to work towards also disgusts me.

I don't want anyone to be dependent on me to provide their self worth or really anything else like that. Especially not an adult. Hell, I require my cat to be as self sufficient as she is able to be and she is just a cat no matter how much I treat her like a higher thinking creature.

I have been labeled independent. By quite a few people. Sometimes it feels like there are no depths to how much that effects my psyche.