I unconsciously gave 25 years of my life to Codependence.

That is to say that I was on autopilot. It was automatic. I saw other people as more valuable than me, more important than me and more desired than me.

I saw everyone else as gods that I felt diminished by. My mother looked at people this way and I acquired her lens. I felt like everyone treated me like shit – but maybe my feeling like shit came first and their behavior came second.