On April 17, 2017 I decided I needed some kind of radical change. My now ex-husband had told me he was happier without me there, and that he wanted a divorce. I remembered from several years earlier after a break with my first codependent relationship, that a friend had recommended Codependents Anonymous. I didn't even know what codependency was at the time, but I was desperate to get my husband back and wanted to try anything and everything. What I've learned in the last two years, is the following: - I have so much more power than I was ever aware of. I never really made a decision for myself. T and I got together when I was 18 and I never knew what independence was like. Especially as a stay-at-home-mom with severe PPD I never felt like I had my own decisions to make. My life revolved around my kids. I was never put on my exes bank account, so I never saw where the money was going. I make less now than he did before, paying more in rent than we did before, and yet some...