S5, Ep 1 Best Friend Therapy: Co-dependency - What makes a relationship unhealthy? How can we change old patterns? Where do we start?
Dial Emma
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The Role of Codependency in Relationships
I actually don't think that codependency has to always be negative in the same way that a boundary can sometimes sound quite scary. There are ways of implementing boundaries with nuance where you might focus your energy on the positive someone can bring and not so much on the negatives they bring. And I think the key is we still exist as individuals. So we are individuals. Oh, no, but also is it that in a codependent relationship, one person is generally the taker and one person is usually the giver? Yeah, exactly. Whereas I think what makes our closeness different is that those roles change all of the time.
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