Hey there, ever feel like one of your friendships is less about mutual support and more about, well, everything revolving around one person? Or perhaps you're constantly sacrificing your own needs to ...

We know codependency in a colloquial sense: when a couple become so reliant on fighting and making up to bond to each other, they cannot function without it. However, biology provides a definition ...

Do you wonder whether you’re a kind, empathetic person or are you codependent? There is a difference between empathy and ...

Melody Beattie became a literary star in the self-help world with “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,” which has sold more than seven million ...

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 ...

When I was first starting to heal from codependency, for example, I wrote down that I wanted reciprocal relationships. Knowing this — and acting on that information — can be the start of ...

Do you have codependent tendencies? A couple of years ago, I started to recognize a gap in the kinds of relationships I wanted — mutual, healthy, loving, happy — and the kind of relationships ...