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, ...

When you hear "codependency," the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't a healthy relationship. It is, by Mental Health America's definition, "an emotional or behavioral condition that affects ...

My last two posts dealt with sex addiction and love addiction, respectively. Though I touched on codependence in the latter, this post will further delve into a “romantic” addiction to an individual, ...

Treva Brandon Scharf was anointed her family’s healer-in-chief at an early age. She learned quickly what the job entailed: to be of service. “I was a natural-born helper, fixer, rescuer,” recalls ...

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 ...

I regularly get questions from people who are upset that friends or relatives have branded them as “codependent.” They want to know if I think they’re codependent. As I’ve said in earlier posts, there ...