Are you in a co-dependent relationship?

In Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, she recounts how her co-dependency drove her to such despair that she planned to murder her seriously ill partner. Although the act never took place, the scenario highlights the devastation that can result when you compulsively prioritise another person's needs over your own

In Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, she recounts how her co-dependency drove her to such despair that she planned to murder her seriously ill partner. Although the act never took place, the scenario highlights the devastation that can result when you compulsively prioritise another person's needs over your own

“I WANT to make something extremely clear here: when I say that I once planned to murder Rayya,” writes Elizabeth Gilbert in her new memoir, All The Way To The River, “I don’t mean that the idea simply crossed my mind that my life would be easier if she were gone. I mean that I fully intended to kill her.”

Good grief. Here’s that “nice lady who wrote Eat Pray Love”, as she describes herself, admitting to plotting her partner’s murder. She’s spilling her literary guts “because I want people to understand how insane co-dependency can make a person become”, writing how “I came very close to premeditatedly and cold-bloodedly murdering my partner because she had taken her affection away from me, and because I was extremely tired.”