Codependency Quote by David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“In these circumstances people in poor families who can't pay their way are surrounded by an atmosphere of barely disguised acrimony; they stop being…

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks…

— Lauren Mackler

“The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.”

— David H. Maister

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal…

— Susan Forward

“Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Most people put too much emphasis and value on their own family, but when a family is promoting anti-survival ideals, it is actually healthier…

— Robin Sacredfire

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong…

— Iain Duncan Smith

“As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain…

— Willa Cather

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

— Brian Tracy

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

— Bob Allen

Oftentimes unhappy, unfulfilled people with a relationship thats pulling them apart channel so much of their expectation and so much of their energy in…

— Kim Wayans

“It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.”

— Aaron B. Powell