Meaning & use
codependency
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An excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one with an illness or addiction who requires support.
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Their relationship showed signs of codependency, with one partner enabling the other's drinking.
The therapist specialized in helping couples work through codependency issues.
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'Codependency' comes from psychology and addiction recovery, describing a pattern where one person's identity becomes overly wrapped up in caretaking another.
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