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How codependency creates inability to enjoy solitude

My partner travels for work and when they are gone I can never figure out what to do with myself even though I have the whole house to myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Identity borrowed from relationship leaves a void when the other is absent, revealing how little self has been cultivated independently.

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