What is “codependency” or a “codependent relationship” and how is it different or unhealthier than normal human relations where we depend on each other to survive?
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It can be healthy or normal, or aspects of it, depending on the relationship and how it is viewed.
Where it gets the label and view as bad is when it gets to be unhealthy or pathological. Whether it is ok or not is subjective. It is based on the views of the people looking at the relationship. It is in the eye of the beholder.
The earlier definitions of it were as it applies to a relationship with a person that is dependent on a substance, like an alcoholic or addict. See Al-Anon.
In the newer broader sense, one is codependent if one thinks they are codependent, and it is that thinking that it is a problem that is indicative of a problem.
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