As you get close to someone, it can be hard to imagine your life without them. No matter whether your relationship is romantic, platonic, or purely familial; it's possible to become codependent on anybody.

When you start sacrificing your own needs for the sake of someone else's and the relationship becomes unbalanced, you are demonstrating a passive self that lacks self-worth and...

Codependency, also referred to as relationship addiction, is both an emotional and behavioral condition passed down the generation line and affects a person's ability to have a mutually satisfying and healthy relationship. Following a number of studies conducted on interpersonal relationships and alcoholism within families, codependency was discovered. Being a learned behavior, codependency...