Marriage traditionally represents a union of two individuals sharing love, responsibilities, and dreams. However, when relationships slip into codependency, this healthy balance shifts dramatically.

Codependency often operates as an invisible force undermining otherwise promising relationships, creating feelings of suffocation and preventing personal growth for both partners. When individuals ...

A reader recently asked me what she could do to prevent codependence in her grandchild. Apparently, alcoholism runs in the family along with codependence. I’m not surprised; the enabling apple doesn’t ...

A strong relationship is built on love, trust, and mutual respect, but when things start to feel too intertwined, you might be slipping into codependency. A codependent relationship isn’t just about ...

If you haven't laid awake at night worrying about relationships, we are not the same. For most of my life, bedtime meant rumination. I'd agonize over a crush. I'd analyze work emails in my mind, ...

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 ...

It’s independence that artists like Kelly Clarkson, Destiny’s Child, and Ne-Yo waxed poetic about—not codependence. While only two little letters separate the words phonetically, in practice the two ...

When you hear "codependency," the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't a healthy relationship. It is, by Mental ...

Codependency can be damaging to a relationship, leading to feelings of suffocation and dissatisfaction, even in what could otherwise be a healthy partnership. If you find it difficult to create space ...