Past Is Prologue
Welcome Back, Codependency
The term went mainstream in the ’80s and ’90s, and it’s carried a stigma ever since
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6 min readMar 26, 2021
By the time I attended my first Al-Anon meetings as a teenager in the ’90s, I had heard the word “codependency” many times. Where? No one in my house talked about it, nor did friends, but it was ambient in the culture at the…
