This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach.

And on this show, I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology,

inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds of entertainment,

impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode.

Well, hello, hello and welcome to this week's episode. I'm super

excited to continue our conversation about boundaries. And in this week's

episode I'm going to be talking about how narcissists and

co-dependence can basically heal that toxic cycle, which I'll get into the cycle,

with boundaries. So let's start with why is it

irresistible for narcissists and co-dependence to get into relationships with each

other? It is so to get into relationships with each other.

It is so seductive.

It is sort of this perfect combination and why is that?

Because narcissists and codependents are basically two halves of this perfect whole.

So you have the narcissists who's basically the taker and the controller.

And then you have the codependent person who is the fixer, the giver, the person who wants to make everything okay,

wants to fulfill all the needs of the narcissist, so they feel okay about themselves which works just fine for the

narcissist because they want all of their needs fulfilled that's what they're

focused on as well but there's something about this dynamic in the beginning because narcissists are also

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