The Need to Be Needed: My Journey Through Codependency

I gave everything to be chosen, until I chose myself.

I used to believe that being needed was the same as being loved.

That if I could just anticipate everyone’s needs, prove how helpful, kind, and accommodating I was, then I would be chosen—maybe even, dare I say, kept?

But deep down, I wasn’t being kind. I was abandoning myself.

I didn’t yet realize that the people I was trying to rescue were often the ones…