# Your experiences with codependency (alcoholic-related)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experiences-with-codependency-alcoholic-related/610776 "2012-01-26T21:43:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experiences-with-codependency-alcoholic-related/610776/1 "2012-01-26T21:43:32Z")

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My father had gone sober before I was born, but he still exhibits alcoholic tendencies, a sort of “dry drunk”–unpredictable anger, verbal abuse, etc.

I’ve come to realize that I give off a lot of the symptoms of [codependency](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency) (also spelled co-dependency) myself. I’m taking some steps toward trying to recover and identify my own issues.

I’m sure others have faced it throughout their lives, and I’m curious. If you’ve been a codependent, have you been able to overcome it? If you’ve had friends/significant others who were, how have they dealt with it? What were your experiences with it in general?