codependence

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codependence

[ko″de-pen´dens]

a relationship in which the individual fears intimacy and establishes patterns of relating to another that are other-directed and entrapping. Codependent people tend to be highly organized, competent, energetic, strongly moral overachievers; they are devoted caretakers but are out of touch with their own needs and feelings.

References in periodicals archive ?

Chacun d'entre eux occupe une place precise dans l'arborescence generalisee du systeme de jeu (autrement dit du ludus ou du <<gaine >>) qui le rend codependant de l'organisation generale.

Dynamiques ludiques: dialectique intrinseque du virtuel au reel

Then you would blame me, though I merely did not want to be your codependant. How can two people love each other and yet manage to do so much harm to each other?

My dress just hangs there

Not coincidentally, the two halves of the album collide in the album's closer, the rough-hewn "Codependants.''