Stenography: Really professional codependency?

[Mary Smith]

The following comes from a popular website listing signs of codependent people:

- Feel most comfortable when they are giving

- Find needy people to take care of

- Try to please others instead of themselves

- Have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility

- Try to be all things to all people all the time

- Have difficulty saying "no" and/or setting boundaries

- Feel empty and bored when they are not involved in a crisis

- Seek out chaos and then complain about it

- Tend to have a self-esteem that is connected to "doing"

 - Are afraid of making mistakes

- Try to be perfect, and expect others to be perfect

- Have self-blame and put themselves down

 - Must be in control at all times

Hits a little close to home, don't it?

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[Mary Smith]

But by definition, aren't prostitutes codependent?  :) 

[Mary Jo Cochran]

In my younger days I thought of court reporting as a comparison to prostitution - certainly not codependency.  I had to have right dress look, right behavior, and was always thinking of how much money a job was worth.

 

I would go without eating for three days to make sure I stayed a size 4. Back in the 80's I always wore a suit or professional dress - never dress pants.  My favorite shoe stores were Tom McCann(?) and (?), I think both now out of business.  I bought a new pair of shoes, and three days later while walking, one of the heels broke.