People suffering from codependency and a codependent way of thinking,feeling and behaving tend to have great difficulty answering the abovequestions with honesty and self-introspection. It is not that codependentsare being dishonest. Codependency creates a numbing of self-knowledge. 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.