Nearly every chaplain has encountered unhealthy relationships during counseling sessions. Curiously, a badly mistreated husband or wife will often explain that they are willing to remain in their ...

Codependency is when someone has an unhealthy attachment to a specific person, creating a one-sided and destructive relationship. Codependent individuals often ignore their own needs, focusing their ...

Steps you can take to move from a codependent to an interdependent relationship include separating your interests from the other person's and focusing on what you need. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) ...

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 ...

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One of the main problems with being codependent is that you have no idea how you hurt yourself. Codependency is a misunderstood term that is severely overused. For those who are actually afflicted by ...

What is the difference between fawning and codependency, you ask? This may sting just a little bit. Fawning is a defence mechanism based on a fear response of not wanting to escalate a threatening ...