In a healthy relationship, despite your interdependence and mutual reliance on one another, if one of you were to leave or die, the other would not lay down and die. It would be a devastation, certainly, but you know in your core that you would survive. People who feel that they would not survive, or “would have a nervous breakdown,” or “would need to move back in with my parents right away” or “would never trust men/women again” are codependent. And on the other extreme, some people can visuali

What Healthy Interdependence Looks Like