Me too; I felt like your story was very much like mine! I have a camp counsellor, countless teachers and coaches left in my wake like your former high school teacher, etc. I don't think you're co-dependent, you're just learning/taking in those roles and wanting to be with/like those type of women. It's kind of role playing where you know you are "safe" because they care about you and where you can play out good mother/bad mother scenarios that you might not have gotten to do "right" as a young child.