Co-dependence and love are not the same. That intoxicating feeling of can't-live-without-you devotion we romanticize in films? Often it's less a portrait of love and more a sketch of codependency—that ...

How to Identify , and Take Steps to Fix , a Codependent Relationship. Lifehacker recently offered advice for identifying a ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve read the books. You’ve listened to the podcasts. You’ve tried to be “better at communicating.” Still, you keep attracting emotionally unavailable partners and doing all the emotional labor just ...

Your mother may have been the first to hold and feed you, perhaps within minutes of your first earthside breath. Somewhere in ...

Coloring Outside the Lines: A Love Story in the Gray of Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption is a gripping, dual-perspective account of the Bowicks' journey through addiction, codependency, trauma, and ...