Independence focuses on one individual achieving a goal or task fully on their own. Interdependence is a dynamic, mutual ...

Therapists don’t view hyper-independence as a personality trait—they see it as a learned survival strategy. It often develops in environments where support was unreliable, conditional, or absent ...

The longer we live on Earth, the more we recognize the need to learn the skills required to take care of our families and ourselves. With each passing year, we also increasingly want to take care of ...

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- Many years ago, I worked with a woman who identified the Fourth of July as her favorite holiday. Walking across campus with me, she enumerated her reasons. 1. On the Fourth in ...

Marriage, once a cornerstone of stability, tradition, and interdependence, is now being tested by forces it never anticipated. Among these is one of the greatest social shifts in human history: the ...