Phoenix Live: A Weekly Divorce Support Group.

This week's divorce support group topic:

When Loving Someone Meant Losing Yourself

"I gave them everything." "I don't know who I am without them." "I can't live without them." We say these things like they're proof of how deeply we loved — badges of devotion. But sometimes the giving of everything was the very thing that quietly cost us ourselves.

This is one of our most loved sessions, because so many people see themselves in it for the first time. Codependency has a bad reputation — nobody wants to wear that label — but underneath the word is something deeply human: the habit of looking to another person to fill the hole inside us, to define us, to make us feel whole. And when they leave, it can feel like a piece of you left with them.

Together we'll look honestly and without judgment at the patterns — losing yourself in someone, saying yes when you mean no, abandoning your own friendships, fearing being left — and where they really come from. Not to shame anyone, but because you can't change what you can't see. Many people walk away from this one saying, "I had no idea that was me."

You'll leave understanding yourself and your past relationship in a whole new light — and with a clearer picture of how to enter your next connection as a whole person, because you want it, not because you need it to feel complete.

Day: Every Tuesday night

Time:

8pm Eastern

7pm Central

6pm Mountain

5pm Pacific