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 ...

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 ...

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

If you’ve heard the term codependency tossed around alongside other “toxic” relationship buzzwords, you might picture obvious scenarios where there’s a giver and a taker: A possessive, selfish jerk ...

You should be able to count on your friends to aid you through a crisis—whether it’s navigating a painful breakup, moving to a new city, or deciding whether you should opt for pumpkin pie or Taylor ...

It can be surprisingly hard to spot a codependent friendship—especially when we’re constantly fed idealized images of “ride or die,” inseparable duos who do everything together. That level of ...

Codependency prevents us from having healthy, balanced relationships where the needs of both people are recognized and met. A codependent relationship will leave you frustrated, exhausted, and ...

There’s nothing inherently wrong with being needy. After all, everyone uses someone to get their needs met. But there's one word that tends to get thrown around a lot, which, when people stop and ask ...

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 ...

Many people find themselves repeating the same unhealthy relationship patterns—despite their best intentions. Consider codependency—when two people with dysfunctional personality traits become worse ...