Still Leaving Your Heart Out on the Door? Stop!
I knew I'd see your face again. I know you have the best intentions. So I leave my heart out on the door. You knock it down just like you did before. Hold me closer than the needle. Fill the emptiness I feel. Hold me closer, I am real. I'll fill the emptiness you feel. We feel. The Lonely Wild, Closer Than the Needle No one else can “fill the emptiness I feel.” Why? Because the emptiness I feel, I created. And the same is true for everyone when it comes to inner-emptiness. We created it over many years through self-negation. Little by little we gave chunks and pieces of ourselves away through self-rejection and self-abandonment. We chewed ourselves up and spit ourselves out and left a big empty void inside of us. And NO ONE can fill up that inner-emptiness we have created—except for us. The active codependent doesn’t understand this process. First, they don’t understand that they created their own inner-emptiness. Most addicts blame others for their emp...