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 ...

Addiction, the constant need for positive affirmations, low self-esteem, an extreme need for approval, an exaggerated sense of responsibility, an intense fear of being alone, and an unhealthy ...

As humans, we're meant to live in community—"villages," if you will. Receiving emotional and logistical support, such as having a few close friends to speak with ...

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

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

Many people are confused by the word “codependency.” When they hear it, they think it simply means that a person is “clingy” or needy. But in fact, codependency is considered a specific and harmful ...

Navigating relationships is tricky enough without the added complexity of tangled emotional roles. If you find yourself constantly appeasing your partner, while they seem to thrive on your attention, ...

Your mother may have been the first to hold and feed you, perhaps within minutes of your first earthside breath. Somewhere in between, someone cut your umbilical cord. However, you may (figuratively) ...

There is no lack of inspirational relationship stories across TikTok, but codependency coach @alyssaaazander struck a particular chord when she opened up about one specific shift that healed her ...