Are you so-so special
More than a little off
Renting that hallowed space
Inn one’s head
To fiend and faux like
For what
Mounts to ears
A-pathetic brood
Checking in weigh too often
Getting your pique of the litter
Wondering aimlessly
Sow sow whys
As trashing hows
The leaser of too evils
Getting lesson nothing
Getting squat-er
Yet billing another story
As stairing into space
The winnow of your soul
Reflecting that unending turn off
Flashing neon signs
Know vacancy
Most everyone who has loved someone has made a fool out of themselves before. If you haven’t, you probably aren’t loving enough, putting your whole self out there. Loving involves intimacy. Intimacy involves risk of being hurt. This is normal, that is, unavoidable, barring building huge walls to keep others out and not caring at all. Of course, failing to love is assured by not trying to love.
Codependency develops in the coarse of normal adaptations to abnormal situations, resulting in self-defeating patterns of behavior. While coping mechanisms may protect oneself fare thee well amidst dysfunction, coping mechanisms applied to more normal situations themselves become dysfunctional. Fear and hyper-vigilance may trigger defensiveness and offensiveness in situations where it is maladaptive. This actually repels more normal people in one’s life, interfering with opportunities to more healthily adapt to higher functioning relationships. Also, the skills developed in codependency are like a neon light to addicts — dependents — signalling your ability to fit their dysfunction. Strangely, unlike attracts unlike, and match to match ignites situations where the house burning down is transformed into a bizarre opportunity to share s’more with each other. The fact that you can tolerate such chaos and abuse is the very measure of such depraved and deprived love.
This brutal dance of codependency often continues until one or more of the parties hits rock bottom, and digging the relationship finally peers as absurd. Oftentimes, since the other person in the relationship is obviously crazy, both the dependent and codependent move onto similar relationships without facing their own craziness. 
If trying to control the uncontrollable, such as other people, is your motto, then you may well be the mayor of crazyville, with all of its perks and benefits. There are many symptoms of such candidacy. They include letting others live rent free in your head, nurturing resentments in the self-contradictory hope of taking poison and expecting others to be hurt, and being so lost in others’ business that you can’t take care of your own business. The hallmark of codependency is not having boundaries where you need them and having walls of denial blocking your view of things as they really are.
Gracefully, there appears to be a sanity clause — just sane! Mysteriously, many eventually brake free from such self-defeating patterns. They come to appreciate the proposition of letting go — or being dragged! 
Trying to control stuff that can’t be controlled creates a bloated illusion that the world will fall apart if you don’t hold it all together. Living in this false hood is extremely dangerous, and great relief can be gained by relinquishing sow sow much on won’s too due list. Maybe you aren’t the one holding it all together. This is a world where you neither play God, nor are played by God. This leaves you free to fulfill your unique role in the whirled, taking care of your own business and your response-ability, and allowing others to live their own lives, without lording over them, as in sibling rivalry. Some call this being an adult. Some call it being a child.
