“Building a supportive and nurturing relationship with our partner can help us create a stable base that makes us more independent and enables to pursue our dreams. This is the dependency paradox.”
If you’re discontented in a relationship or go from one to another or even remain unhappily alone, you may be caught in a worsening cycle of abandonment.
Victims of narcissistic abuse may be emotionally dependent, may have experienced a childhood trauma that disabled their flight response, they may have zero sense of their own self-worth…or they could be none of those things.
