diff --git a/personal/mental health/Relationships.md b/personal/mental health/Relationships.md index 9699ed8..26e2de3 100644 --- a/personal/mental health/Relationships.md +++ b/personal/mental health/Relationships.md @@ -1 +1,17 @@ Healthy relationships are an essential part of being human, romantic *or* platonic. + +# Codependency vs Interdependency + +In an *interdependent relationship*, both people can be independent, healthy, human beings. + +In a *codependent relationship*, one or both individuals in the relationship build an unhealthy reliance on the other person. They start to *need* the other person to be a happy, functioning human. This can lead to subsuming each other, and it can develop into a lack of identity, rage, and frustration. Codependent relationships are not healthy. + +Some common signs of codependency include: +- Your sense of self-worth and self-esteem come from outside yourself. Primarily from your parter. + + + + +## Further reading: +Articles: +-