How to Use codependency in a Sentence

codependency

noun

• The Bibi-Hamas codependency has to stop for there to be any peace.
  — Thomas Friedman, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
• Maybe that’s how deep my personal codependency goes with this movie.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2025
• Sometimes, family and friends need to seek help for codependency.
  — Michelle Pugle, Health, 23 Jan. 2023
• And honestly, the hints at codependency were pretty far down a long line of Dave's red flags that popped up during the pods.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2025
• So is the crazy codependency and memory-lane madness that seemed to fuel their one-of-a-kind dynamic.
  — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• Someone really needs to chat with her about her codependency on her 13-year-old babysitter.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
• This can look like signs of codependency, where other areas of your life receive little attention.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 May 2024
• But life, of course, is not so simple, and rarely has codependency been chronicled with such precision, such poignancy.
  — Vogue, 29 May 2021
• The vast majority of answers to help columns such as yours could point people to self-help programs on codependency.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2021
• Therapy at this point should focus on your own coping skills, as well as exploring concepts such as codependency.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
• For some of you, this is releasing codependency on people, situations, or patterns that no longer serve you.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• For some of you, this is releasing codependency on people, situations, or patterns that no longer serve you.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• Breaking a destructive codependency is so hard, sometimes others must strike the first severing blow for you.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 Dec. 2022
• George isn’t in the closet anymore, but that only clears the table for some new issues, including her harmful streak of codependency.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
• This person has codependency in his relationship and friendships, right?
  — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 31 May 2026
• The duopoly of the great auction houses is a codependency on which the rest of the sixty-five-billion-dollar art market relies.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• In subsequent years, codependency rhetoric moved from the addiction field into mainstream self-help culture.
  — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2024
• But Moore began to put her life back together, going to rehab for trauma, codependency and substance abuse.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• They are trapped in codependency, addicted to the approval of people who are addicted to the power of withholding it.
  — Daniel Lee, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Sometimes there is a chronic level of codependency, which can be a force of nature so strong that 12-step groups have been formed to help people escape its grip.
  — Melanie Hamlett, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2020
• The two actors grew closer as filming went on, developing a friendship that bordered on codependency.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
• Touching on themes of substance abuse, codependency, remorse and heartbreak, Swims leans into the emotions.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
• But codependency is not a clinical diagnosis, and has been defined in many different ways.
  — Sara Kuburic, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
• The Shields women had a codependency that forced young Brooke into an early maturity.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
• Recognizing codependency in a romantic relationship can be tricky, though, since many of its earliest signs look a lot like love.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Dec. 2024
• This can hold you back from mutually fulfilling relationships—and is also a trait of codependency.
  — Sharon Kwon, SELF, 6 Aug. 2022
• While codependency and social development is a challenge, now is a good time for people to address heart matters and redefine success.
  — Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• In the comedy variant of that sub-genre, the one-liners are as frequent as the explosions, and every altercation serves as code for bro-y codependency.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 3 May 2021
• The siblings are trapped in an unsettling codependency, one in which a sister, as if fulfilling a Faustian bargain, funds her brother’s bad habits.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
• High functioning codependency is being overly invested in the feeling states, the decisions, the outcomes of the people in your sphere.
  — Forbes, 11 May 2021