Her memoir sold millions and became a hit movie. But for Elizabeth Gilbert, it was the death of her partner that helped her ...

Love addiction is a desperate need to find someone to love that's fueled by the irrational fear of being alone or rejected.

The concept of codependency has its origins in the addiction recovery movement, treating the enabler of those addicted to alcohol or drugs.

If you want to learn how to overcome codependency so you can break the cycle of relationship and love addiction, here are 4 mindfulness meditations that can help.

Readers react to a guest essay critical of the concept of codependency and tough love.

If you think about codependency as a form of addiction, it could actually help you overcome it. Of course, you’ll still need therapy—whether that’s group therapy or one-on-one sessions ...

Here is big proof that codependency is an addiction: if you’re codependent, you will choose the company of others—perhaps a bad relationship—over taking good care of yourself.

Leslie J. Irvine, Codependency and Recovery: Gender, Self, and Emotions in Popular Self-Help, Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer 1995), pp. 145-163 ...