Many of us have codependent tendencies. Early in our childhood, we are taught to put other people's needs above our own. We learn that to receive love, we need to do what we are told and give excessively. As adults, we continue to display these people-pleasing and...

Being needed makes us feel good. It makes us feel important, valued and wanted by other people. It increases our sense of worth and self-esteem. But when is our need to be needed too much? Similar to workaholism, wanting to be needed is okay until it turns...