Codependent Love: DO you Love to be Loved in Return?
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Relationships can trigger unhealed wounds of the past, and if we are not careful and self-aware, we may love others in an unhealthy way.
In this episode, you will learn from Lisa A. Romano, who will help explain why some of us love to be loved in return and why that is not the healthiest way to operate within relationships.
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Codependency in relationships destroys love. When you are codependent, you seek approval and love others, hoping to be loved in return.
On the surface, this sounds appropriate. However, when we dig in deeper, we learn that relationship dynamics that are rooted in insecure attachment and abandonment issues are anything but easy.
Signs you're codependent include seeking approval, enabling unhealthy behaviors, denying your own needs, putting the needs of others before your own, having poor boundaries, having difficulty with mature communication, lying for a partner, feeling over-responsible for other people's emotions, rescuing or fixing other people's lives, and then feeling angry when others don't do as you would expect them to.
For more help on breaking free of codependency, insecure attachment, or narcissistic relationships, reach out at: coach@lisaaromano.com
Thank you for listening, Codependent Love: Do you love to be loved in return?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness rather |
| 0:25.8 | than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope as you |
| 0:33.5 | spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | Today we're going to be talking about the concept of loving, expecting to be loved, |
| 0:44.3 | and how that might be a cause of why we end up in toxic relationships, |
| 0:50.3 | and why, no matter how much we give in a relationship or how careful we are in picking a partner, |
| 0:56.8 | we end up feeling like we are in unfulfilling relationships or we end up feeling like the person |
| 1:04.1 | that we've manifested really isn't who we want. When we are striving for success and the measure |
| 1:10.8 | of success is outside of us |
| 1:12.5 | perhaps it could be in the size of our paycheck the size of our car the size of our |
| 1:17.5 | house this concept of size this concept of something being large and being |
| 1:23.1 | really really important is also tied to something that I can achieve that I can gain from |
| 1:28.7 | outside of me so think of it as a measurement or a ruler now when we love with the |
| 1:36.3 | intention of being loved then we are really whether we're conscious of it or not |
| 1:41.2 | we're using some type of a ruler and when we are |
| 1:45.5 | ruling something or we are judging something we're already assuming or |
| 1:50.9 | perceiving that the thing outside of us may not meet our expectations it |
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