Codependency stems from a series of messages and decisions to deny one'sself for the needs and wants of others. One example would be a child growing up in a home with one or morealcoholic parents. Alcoholism demands the focus and attention be placed on the drinking alcoholic. Alcoholism does not promote equality or theright to anyone else having personal boundaries. Alcoholism does nothonor the value of others.
Alcoholism lives for itself and itself alone.
Many times it is a matter of the child's survival to focus on others at the expense of self. Taking others mental and emotional temperatures becomes a seventh sense. Anyone who maintains a close relationship with a drinking alcoholic will most likely develop a codependent way of thinking, feeling andbehaving. Of course, alcoholism is not the only spiritual disease that can createthis atmosphere. Any addiction can create these demands of family memberswho live with the addicted or mentally ill person.