In many cases, a codependent partner may stay with someone who is abusive or has a substance abuse problem or addiction. This way, they feel needed and can work to gain their partner’s love.

"In many ways [codependency] crosses over into love addiction and visa versa," she explains. "Sometimes the more dramatic and painful a relationship is, the more a symbiotic dependency strengthens ...

And if one partner in your relationship has an addiction, it’s much more likely to become codependent, says Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More.

The concurrence of sex addiction and codependency can be traced back to a person's childhood. A codependent sex addict was once a child of a pathologically narcissistic parent.

Love addiction is a desperate need to find someone to love that's fueled by the irrational fear of being alone or being rejected. Love addicts typically exhibit signs of co-dependency on their ...

Likewise, CoDependency Addiction, similar to the Earth revolving around our Sun, it-too-revolves around the absence of mother, father or mother surrogate love in a child's life and beyond. It is the ...

Codependency can lead to an array of problems: As part of her research, Bacon has interviewed people struggling with depression, addiction, and other mental health problems, “and they identified ...

Long Beach, Calif. The last name is not being published at the writer’s request. To the Editor: Maia Szalavitz’s essay about codependency makes important points about family addiction recovery.

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