How to Recognize Codependent Behavior
Nicolle Maurer
Everyone desires connection. Everyone wants to be valued and loved and made to feel useful. So, it isn’t any great wonder that all healthy relationships have an aspect of give and take, of sacrifice and gain, and of care and receipt of care. When you love another person, you naturally want to meet their needs and have yours met in return. But what happens when this healthy idea of interdependence with others gets distorted? At what point does a relationship turn from healthy mutual reliance to unhealthy codependent behavior? While there isn’t an exact answer to the questions above, there are some clear factors that differentiate codependent relational patterns from...
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