Quotes by : Mary Crocker Cook

With intimacy comes the possibility of “engulfment” or being taken hostage by the demands of others.....

This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a....

Anxiously attached Codependents demonstrate the ability to maximize the attention they get from their....

Avoiding awareness of our own reality is often an attempt to deny thoughts, desires, or intentions that....

When I consider the men (like my father) I have treated in psychotherapy, I recognize the challenge I....

You can't "let go". You can't "detach with love". You can't let them "hit bottom". You can't seem to....

When our caregivers are unavailable, most of time it has nothing to do with LOVE for the child, however,....

The ManAlive program teaches how the “angry man” is more often a response to experiencing a threat....

In general, I have noticed that many Codependent men have adopted a “self” based on either an exaggerated....

Along with our over-giving is our own conditional giving pattern, which can fuel so much of our resentment....