And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and today you'll learn all about dependence and codependence.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hello there, you beautiful people. How are things with you?

I hope you've been able to cope with all the depressing news that's around.

It's hard to switch off, isn't it? Not impossible. Just hard. But do find alternative ways of keeping entertained, please.

There's more things to do than soak up the news. I know I'm

probably preaching to the choir here, aren't I? I mean, the fact that you're listening to this

right now means you're not listening to the news, which is great. I know a lot of you listen

on your drive to or from work, or at least many of you used to, so many folk

work from home nowadays, which might be nice for you. Might not be. I don't know. I've been working

from home for three or four days a week now for years, so I'm quite used to it. And I quite like it.

It means I can walk out of my office and go downstairs straight into the

kitchen and make the evening meal. Because before I worked from home as much as I do, because it

used to only be like twice a week. Now it's four days out of five. The evening meal was always made

by whoever got home first. It was either me or the wife. Now, it's pretty much

me every night now because my commute is like 10 seconds, but I've quite liked it. I get to

provide something for my wife and it means she can do a workout straight after work for

45 minutes or whatever without feeling rushed. And it's a nice

feeling to provide for her because I love her. She's important to me and I see her as an extension

of myself in some respect after 30 years of being together. So if she's happy, I'm happy. That's not a

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