12 steps of Codependents-Anonymous

1. I admit I am powerless when it comes to LOVE/SEX and my life has become unmanageable.
2. I’ve come to believe that a power greater than myself can restore me to sanity.
3. I am once again making a decision to turn my will and life over to the care of God as I’ve understood God.
4. I will make a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.
5. I will admit to God, myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.
6. I am entirely ready to have God remove all my defects of character.
7. I am humbly asking Him to remove my shortcomings.
8. I will make a list of all the people I have harmed and be willing to make amends to them all
9. I will make direct amends to such people wherever possible; except when to do so would injure them or others emotionally
10. I will continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong I will promptly admit it.
11. I will seek clarity with prayer and mediation to improve my contact with God as I understand him and my higher power, I am praying for only knowledge of his will and the power to carry it out.
12. After having this spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, I will carry this message to others by practicing these principles in all my affairs.