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KMID : 1025820210290030655
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Family and Family Therapy
2021 Volume.29 No. 3 p.655 ~ p.680
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A Narrative Inquiry Into the Codependency Experience of the Wives of Gambling Addicts
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Kim Seong-Eun
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study aims to explore the experience and meaning of codependency of the wives of gambling addicts.
Methods: Participants were three self-identified codependent women whose husbands had gambling problems for more than 5 years. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews, with two or three interviews with each participant conducted from June to July 2021. Data were analyzed according to narrative inquiry procedures proposed by Clandinin and Connelly (2000).
Results: The meaning of codependency experience includes “Pain that comes from the family of origin,” “My selection of the gambling husband at an unconscious level,” Loss of autonomy,” “Redefinition of gambling problems,” and “Transformation of self.”
Conclusions: Results show the relational, familial, and social narratives that shape these women’s codependency experience and suggest the significance of their meaning-making and changing in transforming self. Implications for counseling for the wives of gambling addicts experiencing codependency were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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wives of gambling addicts, codependency, narrative inquiry, gambling addiction
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