Sunday, July 28, 2019

Dependency and Co-Dependency


Affirmations:
My love sets me free to love without end.
I love and share this love as a natural gift of my being.
Love is my natural state.
We are born in Love as Love for the holy purpose of Loving.

Dependent and/or Co-Dependent

Do you need to be needed?
Do you need someone to love you and care for you?
Are you dependent on people, places or things?
Are you aware of how vulnerable or insecure you feel?

What can you do to rely on you?
How can you turn your life into a secure way of living?
Do you have a schedule, routine or something to rely on?
Are you willing to take responsibility for the quality of your life?

Whenever we feel dependent on someone or something, we will feel vulnerable.
To depend on the reliability of others will open the way for insecurity.
Those who learn to manage their own lives have less fear, anxiety and dependency needs.
Consider what or who you can trust no matter what.

Is it helpful to yourself and others to be needy?
Are you here to become your own person or to let someone else guide you?
Do you need to be loved by another or can you actually love yourself?
Do you need someone to need you to be worthy of being loved?

Often you may rely on the advice of others.
You may need others to care for you.
People depend on another or the government for finances.
You may have learned to lean on another and stay dependent.

Consider whether you want someone to depend on you.
Do you encourage others’ addictions or dependency?
Are you aware of how you want to control people who need you?
Some depend on others to be dependent on you

Help your children to become independent and grow up.
Help partners to develop their own gifts and talents.
With independence come strength, courage, and consciousness.
Learn to be independent to feel Self confidence and self respect..

You can be attached to another and want to keep them dependent on you.
You can need to feel better about yourself by taking care of others.
You can be addicted to the feeling of being needed.
You can choose again to set yourself and others free to learn from life.

Dependent love is usually restrictive and limiting.
Conditional love is based on what others do or don’t do.
Independent love is trusting and freeing.
Unconditional love has no limits and simply loves for the sake of loving.

Loving You with Freedom and Trust,
Betty Lue


LOVE IS TRUST AND FREEDOM

¤      I love you      ¤
and I know you love me too.


LOVE IS FREEDOM

The freedom for you and I to be who we are.
The freedom to live life as we do.
The freedom to make mistakes and learn from them.
The freedom to express our own truth as we see it.

LOVE IS TRUST
The trust that there is a constant flow of love,
no matter what.
The trust that, in spite of life’s problems,
we believe in and support each other’s right
to live as we choose.
The trust that in adversity,
there is healing and learning and gifts of love.
The trust that under conflict and emotional expression,
there is love

I love you and I trust you.

I free you to be all you are.

Betty Lue 1978