The Eat, Pray, Love author discusses her love affair with her best friend, which she says was life-changing but also marked ...

Gilbert's relationship with Rayya Elias began as a friendship but evolved into something more profound. Their bond intensified when Elias was diagnosed with terminal cancer, prompting Gilbert to leave ...

My last two posts dealt with sex addiction and love addiction, respectively. Though I touched on codependence in the latter, this post will further delve into a “romantic” addiction to an individual, ...

“I want people to understand how insane codependency can make a person become,” Elizabeth Gilbert says. “I mean, I’m the nice lady who … came very close to premeditatedly and cold-bloodedly murdering ...

NOTE: I have worked in the addiction and mental health field for over 37 years working in substance abuse, eating disorders, co-occurring disorders and codependency with both adult and adolescents. My ...