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Healthy relationships are an essential part of being human, romantic *or* platonic.
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# Codependency vs Interdependency
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In an *interdependent relationship*, both people can be independent, healthy, human beings.
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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.
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Some common signs of codependency include:
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- Your sense of self-worth and self-esteem come from outside yourself. Primarily from your parter.
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<https://psychcentral.com/lib/codependency-vs-interdependency>
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## Further reading:
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Articles:
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