I just watched the movie Henry's Crime with Keanu Reeves, James Cann and Vera Farmiga.
In this movie Henry has an "empty life", there isn't anything "wrong" with it.. he has a wife, a job, a car, a house.. yet he is obviously empty inside.
Codependency does that to you.
He has almost no internal boundaries, he agrees to stuff and doesn't really know why.. he has difficulty in saying "NO" to almost everybody.
Early in the movie a high school friend shows up on his door step, the guy is a shyster, a petty crook, a manipulator.. in short he is a predator and remembers that Henry is "prey"
codependents frequently set themselves up as "prey"
OR.. being Prey is intolerable.... so codas often can cover up their deep rooted feelings of inadequacy by becoming manipulative or even aggressive, bullies are more codependent than the people they prey on.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/henrys_crime_2010/
Henry wants out of his life.. it feels so empty he would rather go to jail for a crime he did not commit
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