The Mother of Codependency

The Mother of Codependency

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos courtesy Nichole Beattie The concept of codependency was just psychology jargon when Melody Beattie, an addiction-recovery counselor, began writing the manuscript for her first book, Codependent No More. This was long before The Let Them Theory, or Set Boundaries, Find Peace, or the easy way so many millennials and Gen-Zers invoke the idea at the first whiff of a dysfunctional coupling today. At 36, Beattie’s …