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Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and podcaster,

and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist.

That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist.

In my private practice I talk to clients about the challenges they face in daily life,

and we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their sense of well-being.

And as her BFF, I get all the benefit of her expertise and wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel

better about life, but also helps me to understand why I act the way I do.

Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only people allowed to call me Liz.

We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and throw a light on the therapy we all need in our

everyday lives. Each week we chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds.

Two best friends, one therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy.

Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy, where this week, hang on, just got to check with Emma,

do you think this is okay? I just need to check with you first because I'm emotionally and mentally

and spiritually reliant on your opinion. And that makes me co-dependence on Emery Terrell,

but happily so. Yes, this episode is all about co-dependency and co-dependency in a relationship

is defined as when each person involved is mentally, emotionally, physically and or spiritually

reliant on the other. A co-dependent relationship can exist between romantic partners,

but also with family members and friends, and it tends to lead to dysfunction in relationships.

I am extremely interested in co-dependency, which is why I'm very happy that we're doing an entire

episode about it, because it's a label that I've only come to relatively late in life, and yet it

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