Question

An emotional and psychological behavioral pattern in which the spouses, partners, parents, children, and friends of individuals with addictive behaviors allow or enable their loved ones to continue their self-destructive habits is known as ____.

Answer 1

Answer:

An emotional and psychological behavioral pattern in which the spouses, partners, parents, children, and friends of individuals with addictive behaviors allow or enable their loved ones to continue their self-destructive habits is known as: codependency.

Explanation:

Codependency is a behavioral condition stablished in a relationship between a person with an addiction problem and a familiar or close person. Both people relate each other in a dinamic which creates a dependency among both people, that doesn't help the problem, it only makes it worst.