SC 26 - The 2 Types Of Co-Dependency & Why You Need Both
The Jayson Gaddis Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.7 • 999 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Co-dependency gets a bad rap in most circles. I used to shame it as well. Yet, as I’ve matured, I’ve come to see that there is a lot of value to be found in co-dependency, yet it’s important to know the difference between the more neurotic kind and the wisdom kind. In this episode I go into what co-dependency is, where it comes from, and how we can relate to it with grace and honesty in our long-term relationships.
SHOWNOTES:
- How does Jayson define co-dependency? [1:30]
- Our two fundamental drives as human beings [3:40]
- The dance of authentic co-dependency [12:00]
- What’s cool about the drive to be authentic… [17:00]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What you want to do? Okay, what's up everybody. Welcome back to the Smart Couple podcast. My name is |
| 0:26.9 | Jason Gattis. I'm your host and I am a former jackass when it comes to relationship. |
| 0:38.9 | I've spent a lot of years trying to figure |
| 0:40.4 | this whole relationship thing out and I'm still on that path. And this |
| 0:47.1 | podcast is really for people who want to get their relationship life handled using the very best strategies, tools, and architecture |
| 0:57.6 | that we can find out there. |
| 1:00.4 | So I interview relationship experts, I interview my friends, I interview relationship experts I interview myself and my wife and together we |
| 1:10.0 | Create better solutions for you. |
| 1:14.0 | And the smart couple is a couple who both roll up their sleeves and face their shit |
| 1:20.0 | so they can have a better relationship. |
| 1:22.0 | All right, today I want to talk about co-dependency. |
| 1:27.0 | So check out the definition that Wikipedia throws down for codependency. |
| 1:35.0 | Coddependent relationships are a type of dysfunctional helping relationship where one person, |
| 1:39.3 | often at an unconscious level, allows themselves to be constantly manipulated, maneuvered, |
| 1:44.8 | undermined, and controlled by another person. |
| 1:47.2 | Codependency is an obsessive and extreme form of self-sacrifice, as they do not believe they can manage alone. |
| 1:54.0 | An individual self-esteem is at rock bottom and it is as if they no longer truly act |
| 2:00.4 | under their own will. Wow. So that is the mainstream kind of vibe with |
| 2:09.2 | codependency and codependency gets a bad rap, right? |
| 2:14.0 | You can see in that definition, if you have any tendencies toward codependency, you're bad |
| 2:21.1 | and wrong, and someone else is trying to mess with you. bad and |
| 2:25.0 | this is just like ridiculous this definition and it's way to extreme. |
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