"Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?", the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having them." (Ruth Peterman, quoted by Melody Beattie, Beyond Co-Dependency and Getting Better All The Time, Harper & Rowe Publishers, p. xi)

Most of us have been having the personal experience I'm talking about today. We may not talk about it a lot, and we certainly may not write about it -- but it's a common experience. I'm talking about co-dependency.

Let me begin by asking the question, "How many of you are familiar with the term -- co-dependency?" How many of you have at least some awareness of what I am talking about -- lift your hand. Well, because some of you are familiar, and some of you aren't, I have the alternative sermon title: When Being G…