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You can’t change what happened to you, but you can change how you grow from it. Share on Pinterest All of us learned how to form attachments to friends, family, and loved ones growing up — but not all ...

Relationships between people are healthy when they are interconnected. In an interconnected relationship, each person has his or her own needs met and strives to meet the needs of the other person. A ...

As someone who's been through her fair share of codependent relationships, I've spent significant time researching the concept of codependency, and let me tell you, if there was a cure to be found, I ...

A codependent relationship is when one partner needs the other partner, who, in turn, needs to be needed. This circular relationship is the basis of what experts refer to when they describe the “cycle ...

Codependency is the desire to control people, including significant others, colleagues, and even children. It can have detrimental effects on healthy child development. As we are seeing an emergence ...

Codependency has become a popular term but what does it mean? Does it make sense to use the word as indiscriminately as we do or is codependency really just being human? The term originated back in ...

A psychologist has shared the three main characteristics of codependency, including neglecting yourself and not being able to see yourself clearly. London-based therapist Abby Rawlinson regularly ...