The Codependent Relationship: Overcoming Codependency Behaviors, Recognizing the Codependent Personality, and Finding Your True Recovery

by Devin Blue

There are so many obstacles that may or may not infiltrate our daily lives that the lines can and do sometimes blur and become murky overall. What is worthy of concern, what symptoms are presented as cues, is there a test that confirms or acknowledges, and if you do have a personal malady, can you remain anonymous in your quest to eradicate it altogether? Am I codependent? You may be reading this and asking yourself that very question right now or you already know it's fully definitive and that it's become a major problem as it pertains to your life and personal growth overall. Regardless of whether you know for sure or not, treatment is now indicated and understanding everything that is needed to get to it from the most detailed of perspectives, is surely the true start to a full recovery you now need. Written by Devin Blue, The Codependent Relationship takes the entire process of web entanglement and breaks it down to the very core; and then goes below the roots to expose the real foundation of how, why, where it all started, and what the processes are to finally remove it by helping yourself. The only way true self-help can be accomplished is to have a profound understanding of what it is that's causing the problems, obtaining the specific tools after identification, and finally implementing those customized tools to tackle the issue at it's heart. You will acquire those attributes after reading and you will generate the most lucid understanding of what it is that's needed to directly deal with every aspect of codependency from beginning to end. With actual personal accounts from Devin on his own struggles to life changing modifications that are simple to implement, yet incredibly empowering! There is little doubt that you 'will' succeed, you just have to take the proper next step and get the book to make it really happen.

Genres: Relationships

72 pages, Paperback

Published March 7, 2018

About the author

Devin Blue was born in south Florida to Midwest transplant parents. After a difficult upbringing in a broken home, he, his mother, and his brother moved to western Minnesota to start a new life at the tender age of eight. While growing up in a MN/ND border town, he would travel back to Florida to visit his father and step mother for four months a year. The years were filled with dysfunction and then another divorce he eventually succumbed to.
It was those years and the turbulent 20's that made him the man he is today. An advocate for mental health, positive thinking, and a strong supporter of solid values; he works today as an author to fully assist others in making important life decisions that will positively affect their existence overall.

Reviews

[Molica · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lots of rambling with little substance

First off, this tiny "book" is in desperate need of an editor. The author's writing style/voice is rambling and overly wordy. He seems to have no idea how to use semicolons or quotes and virtually every sentence is a run-on. There are a few words that are repeated every few sentences, making the reading experience incredibly dull and, well, repetitive. This makes it extremely difficult to get to the meat of the content.

Second, the author promises that the book will not have anecdotal personal stories, then devotes nearly an entire chapter to exactly that.

Third, there seems to be zero reference to anything scientific or evidence-based. Nothing in the content refers to any reputable psychiatric information. The entirety of the book is some guy's seemingly random "insights" into mental illness and behaviors, rounded out by feel-good speculation.

Fourth, the book offers absolutely zero practical steps toward healing. The author assumes a lot of things about the reader, makes potentially offensive lists of "aspect" behaviors, stuffs in a lot of fillers, and then makes a checklist of what the reader should do - never once directing the reader on how to achieve any of those goals.

In conclusion, this book is virtually worthless. It is difficult to read, mind-numbingly boring, and offers zero substance. I truly hope that no one actually pays any money for this garbage; it's a complete waste of time.

[S.D. Curran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting...

I grew up with a co-dependent mother, so a lot of this wasn’t new to me. I primarily read this as research for NaNoWriMo. The author hits on some amazing points about how we settle into old patterns and habits. Most people die at eighteen and get buried fifty years later. The author’s candid sharing of his own life is designed to relate, not brag. The only I have is there are some grammatical errors and formatting errors here and there, coupled with some broken links.