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Scenario

How to stop enabling a friend while maintaining the relationship

My best friend has been struggling with addiction for two years and I've become the person who covers for her, lies for her, and basically enables her while telling myself I'm helping. We both know I'm not actually helping but she needs me to keep doing it and I need to feel needed and neither of us knows how to break this cycle.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your care has become a cage that traps you both in roles that prevent real healing.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Codependence?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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