emotional dependence definition
You are emotionally dependent when you are not defining your own inner worth-instead, making others' approval and attention responsible for your sense of worth. When you are not taking responsibility for your own feelings and for defining your own worth, then you are dependent upon others to do this for you. This is being a victim of others' choices. This is emotional dependency. The opposite of emotional dependency is emotional freedom. You attain emotional freedom when you decide to learn how to take 100% responsibility for all your own feelings.