Relationships fundamentally build on mutual support, love, and understanding. However, sometimes the boundaries between healthy care and codependency blur, leading to dynamics where one partner relies ...

In a world where friends often feel like family, the line between supportive and suffocating relationships can become dangerously blurred. Mental health professionals are noting an alarming rise in ...

Do you always fall for people who don't like you back? Do your friendships feel one-sided? Do work obligations creep into your personal life? If you notice that your needs aren't being met or that ...

Perhaps you constantly sacrifice your own needs to cater to someone else's? If so, you might be navigating the complex waters of a codependent relationship. Far from a simple imbalance, codependency ...

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 ...

Relationships between people are healthy when they are interconnected. In an interconnected relationship, each person has his or her own needs met and strives to meet the needs of the other person. A ...

If you haven't laid awake at night worrying about relationships, we are not the same. For most of my life, bedtime meant rumination. I'd agonize over a crush. I'd analyze work emails in my mind, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. When love feels more like fear than security, it may be a sign ...

You should be able to count on your friends to aid you through a crisis—whether it’s navigating a painful breakup, moving to a new city, or deciding whether you should opt for pumpkin pie or Taylor ...

My specialties include complex trauma, childhood abuse/neglect, healing from narcissistic/abusive relationships, codependency and relationship problems, substance use disorders, masculinity and men's ...