Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

HI,nice to meet you. I’m the girl in the article.

You know, the one you read about last week, next week, the week in between. Remember that advice column question where the lady asked about her daughter’s new friend who seemed to lack boundaries, and all the responders (unanimously) warned her about what they termed an unhealthy relationship, told her to try to distance her daughter from the girl?

And the psychology piece discussing attachment? It also cautioned readers about girls with unhealthy needs and tendencies to latch onto people in obsessive ways. It discussed how extreme the unhealthy person’s needs tend to be, and advised readers to keep themselves safe from people like this.

And the column that introduced laypeople to the term “codependency”? That was another one, subtly (and not so subtly) nudging people away from relationships like those.