I regularly get questions from people who are upset that friends or relatives have branded them as “codependent.” They want to know if I think they’re codependent. As I’ve said in earlier posts, there ...

Interdependence and codependence are sometimes used interchangeably, but in fact, they are two drastically different human behaviors. Interdependence is how much of society works. We rely on others ...

The grassroots term “codependence” emerged in the 1940s and was adopted by chemical dependence professionals as a valuable heuristic for labelling the pain of a dysfunctional relationship with an ...