How to Solve Codependency Issues: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- Excavating the underlying needs on both sides
Find what the demand and the withdrawal are each protecting — and address those needs directly.
The Demand-Withdraw Pattern: Breaking the Pursue-Retreat Cycle - Identify and name your negative cycle
Every stuck couple has a predictable escalation pattern -- naming it lets you step outside it.
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Sue Johnson's Framework for Lasting Bond Repair - Name the cycle as the shared enemy
Give the pattern a name and treat it as the problem — not your partner.
The Pursuer-Withdrawer Cycle, Explained - Break the advice-dependency loop
When people come to you for every decision, it signals advice-giving is making them less capable, not more.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Understand the cycle you’re both in -- not just what your partner does
The anxious-avoidant cycle is a loop both partners create together, not a problem one person causes.
The Anxious-Avoidant Trap: Why Opposites Attract and Then Struggle - Recognize your demon dialogue -- the negative cycle running your relationship
Every stuck couple has a predictable negative loop; naming it together is the first step out.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - Separate the person from the problem
Treat the conflict as a problem you face together, not a contest you fight each other.
The Third Alternative, Made Practical - Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
Secure-Functioning Relationships - Naming the cycle out loud together
Learn to narrate the demand-withdraw cycle while it is happening rather than after.
The Demand-Withdraw Pattern: Breaking the Pursue-Retreat Cycle - Give the work back without abandoning people
Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- We keep agreeing to stop the pushing and the shutting-down, and for a few days it holds, but then something sets it off and we’re right back in it
- We have the exact same fight on a loop
- We have the same fight on a loop, just with different excuses each time, and we always end up convinced the other person is the problem
- My people route every little decision up to me, even ones squarely in their own authority
- We keep having the same fight on a loop
Related concerns
- How To Solve Codependency
Every stuck couple has a predictable escalation pattern -- naming it lets you step outside it.
Identify and name your negative cycle
- How To Deal With A Codependent
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
- How Do I Overcome Codependency
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
- How Do You Deal With Codependency
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
- How Do You Know If Youre Codependent
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
- How To Break The Codependency Cycle
Learn to narrate the demand-withdraw cycle while it is happening rather than after.
Naming the cycle out loud together
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