The grassroots term “codependence” emerged in the 1940s and was adopted by chemical dependence professionals as a valuable heuristic for labelling the pain of a dysfunctional relationship with an ...

The grassroots term “codependence” emerged in the 1940s and was adopted by chemical dependence professionals as a valuable heuristic for labelling the pain of a dysfunctional relationship with an ...

It doesn’t feel very enlightened to admit it, but I’m not anti the idea of codependence. I mean, it’s sort of romantic—in a chic, pre-millennial toxic kind of way—as a concept really: One can’t ...

John Kim is the host of "The Angry Therapist" podcast. He and his partner, Vanessa Bennett, say their therapy backgrounds impacted their relationship. Scheduling sex and making space for anger help ...

Let’s talk codependence, folks, the shadow side of nice — and caretaking as a tactic of control. Less a diagnosis and more a framework for understanding interpersonal dynamics, codependence is the ...