Compassion and Codependency make strange bedfellows. Indeed they do. Truly this combination is a one-sided marriage, and the two together effectively maintain an insecure balance. If you are acquainted with a compassionate codependent, your mindful patience can go a long way toward holding space for them. Simple common sense tells us that compassion and codependency are a bad mix in intimate relationship, yet some continue to play out codependent relationships of this sort even when they know it hurts them.