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Codependency in sentence

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What's so funny (or romantic) about abuse and codependency taken to sociopathic levels on all fronts?
In its most basic terms, codependency occurs at one of the extremes of relationship dynamics – when two partners draw more from each other than from their own inner strength.
The case for US-China economic codependency has been compelling for many years.
As the human pathology of codependency would predict, a parting of the ways eventually occurred.
Consistent with the human pathology of codependency, China’s shifts have become a source of growing discomfort for the US, which can hardly be thrilled with China’s saving pivot.
Whatever the source, the conflict phase of codependency is now at hand.
From the perspective of codependency, the US now feels scorned by its once compliant partner and, predictably, is lashing out in response.
The conflict phase of codependency frames it as a zero-sum battle: US allegations of Chinese intellectual property theft are portrayed by the Trump administration as nothing less than an existential threat to America’s economic future.
Yet, seen as a classic symptom of codependency, those fears are overblown.
That may well be the bottom line on the trade conflicts of codependency.
The US and China both need innovation-led economies for their own purposes – in codependency terms, for their own personal growth.
Transforming a zero-sum conflict of codependency into a positive-sum relationship of mutually beneficial interdependence is the only way to end this economic war before it turns into something far worse.
In the end, moral hair-splitting is less important than the blame game itself – a visible manifestation of the deepening bilateral distrust wrought by a destructive phase of Sino-American codependency.
In many respects, a marriage of convenience between the surplus and deficit countries eventually blossomed into full-blown codependency.
This two-way dependency – the economic equivalent of what psychologists call codependency – has deep roots.
As in the case of humans, economic codependency is ultimately a very destructive relationship.
Blinded by the gratification phase of codependency, both the US and China lost their way.
Therein lies the ultimate twist of codependency: one partner invariably looks inward and turns on the other, in order to recapture that missing piece of its identity.
Yet their battle plan overlooks a critical risk: codependency is a highly reactive relationship.
This is very much in keeping with what could be expected from the reactive phase of a destabilized codependency.
Sino-American codependency poses a formidable challenge to Trump’s strategy of China bashing.
The codependency construct is rooted in the psychopathology of human relationships whereby two partners, whether out of need or convenience, draw unhealthy support from each other.
Ultimately, codependency leads to a loss of identity, serious frictions, and often a nasty breakup – unless one or both of the partners becomes more self-reliant and strikes out on his or her own.
The economic analogue of codependency applies especially well to the US and China.
In the end, however, this codependency was a marriage of convenience, not of love.
Such are the classic pitfalls of codependency: when one partner alters the relationship, there are consequences for the other.
China’s seemingly open-ended purchases of US government debt are at the heart of a web of codependency that binds the two economies.
For more than 20 years, this mutually beneficial codependency has served both countries well in compensating for their inherent saving imbalances while satisfying their respective growth agendas.
As the reactive pathology of codependency would suggest, none of these countries can be expected to acquiesce to such measures without curtailing US access to their markets – a counter-response that could severely undermine the manufacturing revival that seems so central to the Trump presidency’s promise to “Make America Great Again.”
Ironically, with the Trump administration’s policies likely to lead to larger budget deficits that put national saving under additional downward pressure, the need for Chinese and other foreign capital will actually intensify and the codependency trap will only close more tightly.