co-dependency

/ ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənsɪ /

noun

1. psychol a state of mutual dependence between two people, esp when one partner relies emotionally on supporting and caring for the other partner

Derived Forms

• ˌco-deˈpendent, adjectivenoun

Example Sentences

And their relationship, a mix of co-dependency and scapegoating, has echoes of Alan Partridge and his assistant, Lynn.

From BBC

On “My Fault,” he duets with Noah Cyrus on a ballad of co-dependency in a bleak L.A., a dark mirror of Soundcloud rap’s obsession with benzos and nihilism — “It’s hard for me to see you when you’re drunk / In a bathroom stall, takin’ pills, givin’ up … This road you lead me down is too long / It ain’t nothin’ like the streets I grew up on.”

From Los Angeles Times

White: There’s some co-dependency going on there.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms Skinner's debut show explores the co-dependency she created with Ms Truss through her parody character.

From BBC

As these complex synaptic interactions are difficult to investigate experimentally, Agnes and his colleague Prof. Tim Vogels from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have built a theoretical model to disentangle this phenomenon, also known as co-dependency.

From Science Daily