Kara Beth

“You think it's selfish to care about yourself, and you feel bad when you say no, and you get angry when other people don't recognize how much you've helped them (even if they didn't ask you to). A strong desire to avoid conflicts, even if doing so requires you to sacrifice something significant. Give up control, accept that other people have better ideas about how you should live your life, or allow yourself to become a prisoner of the standards set by others. Be preoccupied with your problems and problems only. Accepting other people's expectations as your own and making sacrifices as a result Doing something for oneself can make a codependent feel guilty, as if they have broken some sort of unspoken rule.”
― Yevhenii Lozovyi, Codependency Recovery Workbook: The Complete Guide to Codependency Recovery, Understanding Boundaries, and Recovery from Codependent Relationships

“Codependents have difficulty setting limits because they are so attuned to the feelings of those around them. Be careful not to internalize their emotions, though. You do not have a right to those emotions; they belong to the person experiencing them.”
― Yevhenii Lozovyi, Codependency Recovery Workbook: The Complete Guide to Codependency Recovery, Understanding Boundaries, and Recovery from Codependent Relationships

“You gotta show people you believe in them,” he’d said to Holly’s mother Martha at the time. “It gives them the chance to rise to the occasion. And if they don’t, well, you can hold your head up high because you know you did what you could.”
― Lola Faust, All I Want For Christmas is Utahraptor

“(Why do Christmas trees suck at sewing? They keep dropping their needles),”
― Per Jacobsen, 25 Days