Characteristics of codependent persons include low self-esteem, an unreasonably high need for approval and affection, and denial both of their own personal needs and of problems within the family.
Codependent persons tend to enter relationships that are unstable and that leave them vulnerable to exploitation.
Days of Wine and Roses, American film drama, released in 1962, about the ravaging effect of alcoholism on a young, codependent couple played by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.
You can't be a codependent and be a great gymnast.
What at first looks like a pair of lovers is, in fact, a pathologically codependent mother and son.
This was nothing new for Don, as Stan pointed out to Peggy, who was at once Don's professional mentee and his designated workplace codependent.
Dogs who love too much, codependent dogs, or clingy, pathetic dogs are not reproved.
Supposedly, it was a cheerier occasion, and there was a brightness to Catherine that has now been overcast by her fug of grief; yet even then the mood was brittle, with Virginia looking at the happy couple and declaring, "You seem cripplingly codependent".
Her other roles for Mabou Mines included Madame Curie in "Dead End Kids" (1980), the company's signature evocation of a nuclear holocaust, and the abused, sexually codependent butcher of Franz Xaver Kroetz's "Through the Leaves" (1984).
Simmons's relationship with ESPN might be described as dysfunctionally codependent: the Worldwide Leader in Sports needs the byline of America's most prominent sportswriter; America's most prominent sportswriter needs the platform of the Worldwide Leader in Sports.
Still, the job allowed her to get out of her husband's codependent shadow and develop a more authentic aura of inevitability.
