It’s a fairly well-known truth that relationships are never meant to be easy. Maintaining a long-term relationship by keeping it alive and healthy over decades of change requires effort, labor and the ...

When you hear "codependency," the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't a healthy relationship. It is, by Mental Health America's definition, "an emotional or behavioral condition that affects ...

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Addiction, the constant need for positive affirmations, low self-esteem, an extreme need for approval, an exaggerated sense of responsibility, an intense fear of being alone, and an unhealthy ...

It can be surprisingly hard to spot a codependent friendship—especially when we’re constantly fed idealized images of “ride or die,” inseparable duos who do everything together. That level of ...