«I know better than you what you need.» «You are torturing me, and you should change to make me feel better.» “I do everything right, but I don’t feel any joy from it. Where is my life going? The more thoughts of this kind we have, the closer we are to codependency. That is, to a state where our mood depends on the people around us more than on ourselves. And then we try to explain to others how they should behave. We persuade and exhort, give arguments or weep bitterly. Many of us think that close relationships are just like that and that this is destiny. But no, it’s our choice, and Melody Beatty, a former alcoholic, family counselor and current writer, shows how it can be changed.
Eksmo, 384 p., 2015.