My college roommate and I have lived together for three years and we've become codependent in ways that are starting to hurt both of us — we can't make social plans without checking with each other first and we've stopped growing as individuals — but neither of us knows how to create healthy space without it feeling like rejection.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people have created such a tight bond that it has become a cage, and their fear of losing closeness is preventing them from becoming who they're meant to be.
“Where Are You with Post-traumatic growth — what can grow in the soil of loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.