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Relationships are, by their very nature, transactional, which leads to myriad configurations.

Co-dependency is not a bad thing when it is cooperative and interdependent.

Narcissistic source is at the core of relationships. Narcissistic supply is a distortion of that element.

All relationships, whether romantic, social, sexual, financial, or otherwise, are transactional. The transactional nature of relationships can lead to myriad dynamics; some can be especially supportive, while others are roundly destructive, and still others are somewhere in the gray.

There is a notion in psychology termed "narcissistic source." Recently, narcissism has garnered a definitively negative connotation, but undistorted narcissism is simply self-interest. “Undistorted narcissism” is meant to imply that same original definition of narcissism, which is the transactional aspect of relationship. We give something to another entity, whether it be a person, a group, or an organization, and have an expectation of something similar, or the same, in return. These are simple social dynamics.

This kind of social transaction is at the very heart of cooperative codependence, which might also be termed interdependence, and collaboration, in a........

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