What is codependency? Excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction.”the tie that binds most of us together in this trap called codependency”

It is an emotional and behavioural condition that affects an individual’s ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship. It is also known as “relationship addiction” because people with Codependency

About healing from Codependency. The good news is that codependency is a learned behaviour, which means it can be unlearned. If you love your partner and want to keep the relationship, you need to heal yourself first and foremost.

Codependency can occur in any type of relationship, including family, work, friendship, and also romantic, peer or community or  relationships.

Codependency refers to a complex emotional and behavioural condition that affects a person’s ability to have a healthy and mutually satisfying relationship. Codependency can affect a wide range of relationships including parents and children, siblings, friends, significant others or co-workers.

A major sign of codependency is when you feel like you have to take care of everyone all the time. This typically comes from childhood, when the caretaker learns there may be terrible consequences from failing to take care of a parent’s needs. 

The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics. 

Researchers revealed that the characteristics of codependents were much more prevalent in the general population than had been imagined. In fact, they found that if you were raised in a dysfunctional family or had an ill parent, you are likely to be a codependent. 

Codependency issues typically develop when someone is raised by parents who are either overprotective or under protective. Overprotective parents may shield or protect their children from gaining the confidence they need to be independent in the world. 

Don’t feel bad if that includes you. Many families are dysfunctional. In childhood when a person expresses rejection, the sadness and emptiness continues on in life. Even after getting love it is not satisfying being fearful of the one who gives love, as the person lives  in fear of  that  person who loves thinking that he will reject him one day.