0 the situation in which one person helps to cause another person's alcohol problem, drug addiction, etc. because they have a strong emotional need themselves:
The book contains strategies on how to overcome codependency.
If confronted, codependents usually deny their codependency.
Some people need to tackle their codependency issues before they can let go of addiction or alcoholism.
The pronouncement expresses the key philosophical idea of codependency.
The double reference in the pronoun "his" underscores the theme of codependency.
This codependency is partly responsible for their success and moreover accounts for their simultaneous fall from favor, which, however, can clearly be seen as also stemming from different internal problems.
Recovery for them entails recognising that being a control freak helped paradoxically preserve codependency itself.
The expansion of the meaning of codependency was happening very publicly.
