Halsey Quotes

I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.

Actually, I've gotten myself into some difficult places because I thought I could fix somebody.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Growing up, all I learned was how best to diminish my own light for a partner.

I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.

What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're not professionals; they don't know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that position is tricky. You have to look at it from their standpoint. It's so much pressure.

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.

I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.

Nobody should feel like they can force themselves into your life how it suits them when it's toxic and unwanted.

I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

I haven't had a terrible relationship, but I've always been the type in a relationship to give too much and not speak out about problems I had or problems that were bothering me. I just wouldn't stand up for myself in any way if I was upset about something.

I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.

When you become an adult and you have a choice of who to have in your life, if someone's hurting you and making you feel bad, then they shouldn't be in your life, even if it's a family member.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.