notes/personal/mental health/Relationships.md

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.

https://psychcentral.com/lib/codependency-vs-interdependency

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