What Can Adults Do to Regulate Their Emotions?
A healthy relationship is when people don’t forget their needs.
Co-dependency arises from an insecure attachment style and low self-esteem. Instead of seeking inner balance and security, we seek it outside. Here are a few clues we can spot to identify whether we fit the co-dependency checklist:
- Fear of being alone
- Abandonment issues
- Poor management of emotions
- Inability to start actions or decide for oneself.
How can we regulate our emotions easier?
Let’s look at how emotional co-dependency develops, what it feels like, and finally, what we can do about it.
The roots of emotional co-dependency.
By allowing those around us to influence our internal well-being, we become prone to emotional co-dependency.
These people can be our parents, siblings, friends, life partners, or kids. This dependency usually stems from a lack of control over our uncomfortable emotions and insecurities.
Emotional co-dependency in adults roots in childhood.
In childhood, we develop and shape our internal selves. That’s when we begin establishing…
