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Codependency: the systematic absence of sovereignty in

Codependency: the systematic absence of sovereignty in relationships, characterized by the loss of self in service of managing another person's experience, where one person's behavior affects you to the point of obsession with controlling that person's behavior

Why This Is a Definition

This definition precisely establishes 'codependency' by naming its genus (systematic absence of sovereignty) and differentia (loss of self in service of managing another person's experience). It distinguishes codependency from true sovereignty and provides the operational boundary for recognizing this pattern in relationships.

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Sovereignty and relationships

Sovereignty in relationships means being fully yourself while fully connecting with others.

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AxiomExtended Cognition Thesis AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable Resource AxiomHindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity AxiomExpertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking AxiomLinguistic Structuring of Thought AxiomCognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance AxiomDual Coding Theory: Verbal and Visual Channels AxiomConversational Memory Asymmetry From Production Planning AxiomAttention as Gate to Conscious Perception AxiomNeural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning AxiomPatterns Exist in Hierarchical Logical Levels AxiomGoals as Perceptual Filters AxiomSystematic Overconfidence Taxonomy AxiomEmotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator AxiomBias Blind Spot Asymmetry AxiomScientific Paradigms Are Incommensurable AxiomConsciousness Requires Global Neural Integration AxiomCognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems AxiomCognitive and Affective Empathy Are Distinct AxiomLooping Effects of Human Classification AxiomAutomatic Pattern Perception AxiomHierarchical Chunking Expands Capacity AxiomPiagetian Equilibration Through Schema Dynamics AxiomPeople interpret failure as either evidence about their AxiomBehavior requires an initiating signal to occur at a AxiomYou necessarily trust your own cognitive faculties as a AxiomPsychological flexibility (the ability to adapt behavior to AxiomThe brain constructs emotions by predicting what bodily AxiomRegulatory flexibility—the ability to shift between AxiomInternal working models of self and others, constructed in

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