For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.
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We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.
I don't need anyone, I said.Then you cameI need I need! I NEED YOU. I needed you.What did you teach me?Not to need you.NOT TO NEED.
If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.
The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.
The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life__ challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.
It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.
It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.
Never depend on a road, depend on your strides
Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.Having a partner is not a precondition for completeness.
People addicted with technology.Technology has indulged mankind. Beware of technology dependency!
Living off others is a form of bondage__or if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.
Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.
when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others_) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.