Agreeing with the previous comments, my personal experience has been that both men and women have this behaviour.
"40 million Americans, primarily women, have been labelled as codependent"
for women to be co-dependent unless the relationship is with another woman there is also a man involved in this interaction. While taking the emotional temperature of the room and adjusting actions accordingly is taught traditionally as part of the women role in a household as the emotional caretakers of a household with the dynamics of families today often young men take on this role as well.
so putting this as a women's issue doesn't seem to do it justice, perhaps women talk about it more because it's more socially acceptable to do so, but I feel like we need to make room and relinquish the stoic crap that society including women push onto men, and allow men to own their emotional vulnerability for they can do the emotional work to move forward.
Which in turn by releasing them from their side of the dynamic will allow women to move forward as well without feeling the need to do the emotional work for both people.
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Agreeing with the previous comments, my personal experience has been that both men and women have this behaviour.
"40 million Americans, primarily women, have been labelled as codependent"
for women to be co-dependent unless the relationship is with another woman there is also a man involved in this interaction. While taking the emotional temperature of the room and adjusting actions accordingly is taught traditionally as part of the women role in a household as the emotional caretakers of a household with the dynamics of families today often young men take on this role as well.
so putting this as a women's issue doesn't seem to do it justice, perhaps women talk about it more because it's more socially acceptable to do so, but I feel like we need to make room and relinquish the stoic crap that society including women push onto men, and allow men to own their emotional vulnerability for they can do the emotional work to move forward.
October 12, 2017 - 7:06pmWhich in turn by releasing them from their side of the dynamic will allow women to move forward as well without feeling the need to do the emotional work for both people.
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