Unrequited Love: The Fall of Emotional Attachments
- Branden J Johnson
- Apr 5
- 1 min read
Emotional Co-Dependency is the soil from which toxicity grows; a plant without gender.
In every valley of all of my romantic relationships; every toxic moment was rooted in the emotional codependency of the relationship. The unsuccessful moment of the flow of love in the relationship felt like a blockage in the singular body, mind, and spirit our love created- as if we were the one's giving the entity (our relationship) high blood pressure.
How do we detox our souls?
How do we love without depending on receiving love from the other?
It took me a while to realize (in a way applicable to my life); I had to fill my own cup.
As broken, fractured, severed, and torn asunder I was, it was imperative to create a plan of putting my cup back together again. In creating said plan, I had to solve the problems which created the brokenness.
Over time; the relationship I was trying to grow could not continue to grow with its roots growth being stifled from lack of space.
In time; the nutrients of emotional codependency, which once cultivated the sprout, have now caused the plant to wilt through its evolution to a more mature state of being. The plant needed nutrients I wasn't prepared to give. I didn't lack the ability to give. I lacked the knowledge of what the plant needed in this new stage of growth.
What is Emotional Co-Dependency without consistency?
Neglect... The death of any kind of growth.

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