O.K. so I have a question. What is the difference between Love and Co-dependency? Sounds like very similar things to me and I'm wondering about the scientific difference. Is Co-dependency simply a scientific word for love? I'm confused!
Love is used to describe a feeling of magnetism between people. Codependency is used to describe a possible mechanics of a relationship that is considered healthy. You can still love someone and have a toxic relationship
Codependency is used to describe a possible mechanics of a relationship that is considered healthy.
Guessing you mean unhealthy.
@YoungPunk: As I understand it, codependency is more of a popular term than a clinical one, so you might want to read up on attachment styles. The idea of codependency has a lot of overlap with the ambivalent-insecure attachment style.
This clip also came to mind, which uses the term 'attachment' in the Buddhist sense, but I think answers your question more directly.
@YoungPunk: As I understand it, codependency is more of a popular term than a clinical one, so you might want to read up on attachment styles. The idea of codependency has a lot of overlap with the ambivalent-insecure attachment style.
This clip also came to mind, which uses the term 'attachment' in the Buddhist sense, but I think answers your question more directly.
Wow! This clip explained so much. You should definitely consider practicing independently, you are much better than the psychologists I've seen! Including a high school Spanish teacher who thought she was a psychology expert and had a "premonition" I was going to get an F the first day of class. I had to switch into cooking 🙄
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
Erich Fromm was a psychotherapist and popular writer, but a pretty radical one. I think his ideas are more in line with Buddhist practices already mentioned than much of western psychology.
I wouldn't expect too much constructive about love by much of mainstream western psychology, which is often criticised for being too individualistic and for mainly focusing on individual deficit and abnormality (though positive psychology is also a thing nowadays).
Interesting question. Sorry for my BEAbsence. Working and stuff.
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