overcoming unhealthy relationships

She’s made all the mistakes, so you don’t have to… Ask Erin is a weekly advice column, in which Erin answers your burning questions about anything at all.

I grew up in a home with some undesirable happenings. (I assume everyone does, but my husband has made me question my assumption.)

A low opinion of my character should not translate to assuming I would lie about abuse, or that I somehow deserved abuse.

In simplest terms, codependency is a relationship pattern of losing ourselves in another person and has been called the “disease of the lost self.”