Mammatus

My daughter and her boyfriend are mentally handicapped, and they are really not doing a good job taking care of her two children. I feel so bad for them because they are not getting the care that they need. I am wondering when it is possible for grandparents to get custody of their grandkids. Is there somewhere I can go to find out more about Child Custody Modification law? I think those poor kids would be so much better off with us than with my daughter. She doesn’t even get then the proper clothes for the bad weather unless I threaten to report her.

Codependency in relationships does not have to be about drugs and alcohol. Some spouses can enable another spouse to continue with habits that are not for the best. When one depends on the other too much, it almost becomes more of a parent-child relationship more so than a marriage of two individuals. This can be dangerous because the dependent partner will do anything they can to keep the marriage where they want it to be. That might mean putting up with abuse, or with a serial cheater. The other spouse becomes dependent on the enabler to make them feel that what they are doing is okay, even when deep down they know it is not.