Maintaining Your Own Identity While Loving Another
Being in a relationship and being in love is one of the most beautiful things in life. Being able to share a part of yourself with someone and find solace in that person. But what about when the partnership has a heavy dose of codependency? It's easy to get lost in your relationship and usually it's just a symptom of it being new and exciting. But when it carries on through the entirety of the relationship it's anything but healthy. Your identity and who you are as a single entity is lost to who you are within your relationship. You no longer know how to operate on your own, you only do things that are approved of or involve your partner. While we all like to say that we're completely independent no matter who we're around, sometimes we fall into that trap and it's hard to get out of. I've seen it happen to people around me and it's hard to watch. They became so sucked into their relationship or marriage that when that person was no longer around or