As children become young adults, it's critical that they learn how to be self-sufficient. Breaking free from generational codependency is never easy. Psychotherapist Dr. Sharon Martin, who specializes ...

It’s a fairly well-known truth that relationships are never meant to be easy. Maintaining a long-term relationship by keeping it alive and healthy over decades of change requires effort, labor and the ...

My specialty areas are anxiety and OCD, depression, adolescents /adults of divorced parents, grief and loss, trauma, codependency , adolescents/adults of alcoholic/addicted parent(s), ADHD management, ...

A codependent parent may be overly controlling, feel an excessive sense of responsibility for their child, and have an intense need for approval. Childhood experiences within a dysfunctional family ...

The filmmaking duo Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton sure think so. Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton at home.Credit...Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times Supported by By Anna Martin I think we all ...

To feel free in an interdependent relationship is the goal of recovery. It requires autonomy, self-esteem, and boundaries. Being able to envision what a healthy relationship looks like can help us ...

Q: I have been divorced twice and have been in my current relationship with my girlfriend for three years. All three of these relationships have been stressful, involving lots of drama. I can’t help ...

At the time, I thought codependency seemed like a dubious, unscientific concept that could be self-pathologizing. But then I read something on the website of Co-Dependents Anonymous, a 12-step program ...