Emotional dependency means getting one’s good feelings from outside oneself. It means needing to get filled from outside rather than from within. Who or what do you believe is responsible for your emotional wellbeing?
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Most people who struggle with same-sex attraction—both male and female—also have issues with Emotional Dependency (ED). They aren’t just physically attracted to the same sex, but they also experience an often overwhelming need for intimacy and closeness that can get out of control.
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Research indicates that economic dependency in women and emotional dependency in men independently contribute to domestic-partner abuse risk and that high levels of emotional dependency in an abused partner may reduce the likelihood that the victimized person will terminate the relationship. ... Dependency (Psychology)
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Margaret Paul, Ph.D. Is this Love or Emotional Dependency?   One of my clients, whose boyfriend recently broke up with her, asked me the following question...'I think I still love him, but is this love or just emotional dependency? ... Is this Love or Emotional Dependency? One of my clients, whose boyfriend recently...
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To evaluate a new psychosocial model of the determinants of condom use for the prevention of HIV. ... The results were: partner pros and partner resource dependency respectively produced positive and negative associations with self-efficacy (R2 = .26); partner pros and emotional dependency were positively associated...
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3 Another term for reciprocal emotional dependency is “enmeshment,” a type of relationship in which poorly defined interpersonal boundaries cause two people to become “so blended together [that] neither can be very sure where he or she stop...
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Girls grow up wanting to please and be liked by others, a pattern that fosters emotional dependency -- and puts them at greater risk for depression later in life, according to a study in the December issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. ... Those childhood patterns of emotional reliance can be changed,
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In my counseling practice, I often see married couples where one spouse is emotionally dependent and the other is emotionally distant. Interestingly, both aspects of this system come from fear. Neediness - emotional dependency - comes from a deep fear of rejection, stemming from inner abandonment.
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Causesis the main causes of emotional dependency. The more fluid the boundaries of a person (such as a person who is Borderline), the harder it is to distinguish between oneself and other. Therefore, if the other is mad or not approving, we feel mad and unaproving of ourselves, and not acceptable and not of worth.
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"I think I still love her, but is this love or just emotional dependency? Many times I ask myself if falling in love comes from the wounded self because (for me at least) it feels as if I can't live without the other person.
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