Are you feeling drained and angry by your partner's behaviors?

He’s Driving Me Nuts! 

So you are you feeling drained and angry by your partner's behaviors. It certainly can be a full time job dealing with annoying and childish behaviors from your lover! Let’s see how bad your situation may be. Look over the list below and answer each situation as a Yes or No as it applies to you NOT your significant other.

1. Oftentimes I find myself focusing on and helping other people with their needs, even at my own expense.
2. When I need help from others, I usually decline and it makes me uncomfortable when the attention is on me.
3. I take pride in the fact that I am so helpful and patient with others, I usually postpone or deny my own needs.
4. I feel most gratified about myself when I am giving advice and helping others handle crisis situations
5. Many times I have expected others to help take care of my needs in return but it seems that it’s never my turn!
6. Frequently I am so focused on the other parties needs that I can only think about that person and how to help them.
7. I take good care of my friends, most people like me because of what I can do for them.
8. It’s not very often that I take a look at how I feel and when I do think about it, my primary emotion is anger and frustration.

If you answered “yes” to most of the questions above, you may have a codependent personality. Typically, people that tend to be codependent have a long history of focusing thoughts and behavior on others instead of self. Codependents are “people pleasers” and will go out of their way to get approvals of others. CDs appear very competent on the outside but on the inside feel quite needy, helpless or numb entirely. He or she has experienced abuse or emotional neglect as a child. Their parents or role models had an unhappy relationship with each other or he or she was raised in a single parent family and one of the role models may have been an alcoholic or drug addict.