You Might Be Codependent. Learn How to Set Boundaries & Build Healthy Relationships!

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Is codependency secretly sabotaging your life and relationships? Are you losing yourself while desperately trying to fix someone else? Mayim and Jonathan explore how to spot the telltale signs of codependent behavior and distinguish it from a healthy relationship, romantic or otherwise. Using the book, “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself” by Melody Bettle as their guide, Mayim and Jonathan break down how trauma and family dynamics can create codependency and how to break those codependent patterns. Learn why pressuring others to change never works, the physiological toll of codependency, and how to set powerful boundaries to protect yourself. They share tips on how to overcome codependency, such as how to increase emotional resilience, build your self-esteem, recognize your needs, and practice healthy detachment—without losing yourself. Plus, see how Jonathan did on Mayim's codependency quiz!

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0:00.0	Are you ruminating and saying,
0:03.0	I always try and help this person.
0:05.0	Why don't they fucking listen?
0:07.0	Why don't they get it?
0:08.0	I'm anxious.
0:09.0	I'm sad.
0:10.0	This is unfulfilling.
0:11.0	Why does trying to force someone to do what you think that they should do
0:16.0	actually not help them?
0:18.0	People don't change until they're ready to. You don't know what someone's
0:23.7	bottom is. When you try and insert yourself and say, now is the time for you to dump him, that person
0:29.6	may actually not have the tools necessary to extricate themselves from the relationship in a healthy,
0:36.5	sustaining way. you're inserting
0:38.4	your thoughts and behaviors into someone else's life when they may not have the skills to actually
0:43.7	follow through on what they need to do, which is not your business.
0:47.9	It's between them and their higher power.
0:50.1	We are robbing that person the dignity of their own in sometimes shitty mistakes.
0:56.6	We lose a part of ourself when we so step into trying to solve someone else's crisis.
1:04.1	People have their own path and they have to learn things in their own way.
1:08.6	You can't prevent someone else's learning.
1:23.9	Music to learn things in their own way. You can't prevent someone else's learning. Hi, I'm I'm Bialik. I'm Jonathan Cohen. And welcome to our breakdown. Today we've got a very special MBB explorers. We are exploring codependency today. I couldn't do this without you,
1:30.7	Maim. Because you're codependent. I want to do everything together. You're codependent.
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