Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

This book is a MUST for anyone living in any kind of dysfunctional situation. It was recommended to me by my Aunt. Although it’s not a wild fictional story with plot twists and turns, I couldn’t put it down. Relatable. It’s as if the author was addressing me personally at times. Amazing self-discovery/self-help book.

Years ago I read "Codependent No More" and found it somewhat helpful. I really like this one much better and have used it over and over! It's helpful to read it all then go back and look up specific areas where guidance is needed. It's helped me gain insight and make some very significant, positive (for me) changes in my life. It's less expensive than therapy too. I have recommended this book to a good friend.

Wow. If I could have read this years ago I definitely would have saved myself from a lot of Life’s Struggles. Nevertheless I am so grateful that I was able to read this book, such an eye opener. This is a book that you can’t just read once, I truly plan to read this more than once.

The book was recommended by my therapist. When I was well into the book, I saw why she recommended it. It is an incredible book for anyone who may have been labeled codependent. I had absolutely NO IDEA!

Didn’t fully finish it yet but very interesting and has been really helpful in my daily life

Read this book on libby and had to own it! It is a must read for those who struggle with codependency also helpful in so many areas..

Codependency, like people, comes in many forms... Mine was not from alcoholic parents, or alcoholic family members, or drug abuse, but something just as hurtful and deep... being sexually molested as a child. It's amazing to see how something can alter one's life, in ways we don't see, but feel and continue to feel as gown ups if we don't get the internal and emotional help we need when we face something as devastating and traumatic as a child. We carry it on to our relationships... the painful relationships we feel so sure that we are able to fix, because we feel it in ourselves to fix, yet we put off fixing ourselves. We choose to overlook our needs, or wants, our dreams trying to fulfill someone else's. We feel that if we are able to help someone else, that our internal fears and pain will go away, or at least like a pain killer does to the body... will mask it for the time being.I had two failed marriages - first one I was married to a man with OCD... severe. I felt that I would change this man, that I would be able to make a difference and it didn't, it just made me a very unhappy person, which drove me to a relationship with food, it was a relationship which filled me up, made me mentally content, or so I thought only to see that the only thing from that relationship with food which I gained was weight and I was miserable. I knew that was a relationship I needed to sever, so I began getting help from a counselor and started seeing my unhappy life from a different perspective, getting the help, helped me see that it was not so hard to get out of. Yet I went back to what felt comfortable... and soon after that I went into another relationship, with a alcoholic man which I saw at the time as being a "social drinker"... another "victim" which I felt I could help, I could cure, I could change. Although he is now a recovering alcoholic, he put me through the mental wringer - this too ended in divorce. And then... the married, "I will get a divorce... cheated on his wife with me" boyfriend... three years I was with him and three years I listened to the lies he told me when I would see texts from other women... I lived in constant denial - we would break up and we would get back together... it was always me who wanted to make it work. Two days ago was the last straw! I said NO MORE!!! Wake up Linda and stop living a Lie!!When I began seeing a counselor again a few months ago, this time with the yearning and longing to make a life change for the choices I make. My doctor suggested I read the book on codependency and I am three quarters through it. I've read so many eye opening moments. It is altering when you see that what you are going through you are not alone, and you begin to understand your worth, not by trying to change someone else's life, but by making the choice of taking control of yours! This book is helping my inner child grow up and see myself for the genuine and amazing person I am - I have so much to give myself! So much love, attention and respect! I have always looked for that in others, when really no one can give it to me if I don't give it to myself first! I have a new perspective on my life and the relationships I will allow in my life. Life is about choices... it's never too late to reevaluate and improve on oneself - this book has helped me open up my eyes to that! I am not closing them, and when I blink, I will reflect on the lessons I have learned from my failed relationships and my will to know the difference and to make a change for only better!

This book was recommended to me by several people whom are huge fans of the author’s work. Although this book didn’t help me, I would suggest it to anyone else who needs guidance in this area.

I have given this authors books as gifts , easy to read. helpful stories .

I was so excited to read it with all the positive reviews but it was a waste of my money and time, shallow book, and lacked realistic and practical help, she author even says she is not an expert on the topic and it only talks about how to deal as a codependent of someone dealing with alcoholism... waste of my money..

Well written and easy to understand the concepts.

Parfaite. arrive a lheure

Not really helpful at all