Exercises to Work on Emotional Dependence

  Emotional dependence involves a series of chain reactions. The main characteristic is the struggle to feel emotionally close to another person for fear of abandonment. In fact, the efforts to be close to the other, avoiding the discomfort caused by the non-reciprocity of feelings, can be the main source of suffering. Symptoms caused by emotional dependency range from obsessive reactions to depressive symptoms. As a consequence, the sufferer narrows their focus to increase their efforts to be close to the other, losing focus on other areas that are important in their life. Emotional dependency Emotional dependence is an extreme…