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

Relationships fundamentally build on mutual support, love, and understanding. However, sometimes the boundaries between healthy care and codependency blur, leading to dynamics where one partner relies ...

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

How do therapists treat codependency? Because codependency refers to an imbalanced relationship pattern, therapy is aimed at restoring or creating healthy patterns of caring between family members or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When love feels more like fear than security, it may be a sign of codependency.

Q: I have been divorced twice and have been in my current relationship with my girlfriend for three years. All three of these relationships have been stressful, involving lots of drama. I can’t help ...

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, ...

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 ...

"I thought: if I just helped my friends, colleagues and neighbors, maybe I'd get the connection I craved in love, work and life," writes... How I broke free from codependency — and learned the meaning ...