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Dog in Purse -- Like the woman who can't go to the bathroom without a friend highmay-esque, but not a serious enough offense to make the list, a small dog in the purse indicates some serious co-dependency issues.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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Dog in Purse -- Like the woman who can't go to the bathroom without a friend highmay-esque, but not a serious enough offense to make the list, a small dog in the purse indicates some serious co-dependency issues.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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Between fragmentary renderings of Abbas's past, there is also time to learn of Maryam's sad childhood and troubling co-dependency with her foster parents.
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Dog in Purse -- Like the woman who can't go to the bathroom without a friend highmay-esque, but not a serious enough offense to make the list, a small dog in the purse indicates some serious co-dependency issues.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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I was advised to refute the co-dependency I was living in and to force her to choose between the cigarettes or me.
Ask Amy washingtonpost.com 2010
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The press has increasingly been letting officialdom get away with this cowardly game, indeed developed a co-dependency with government in allowing it.
Karl Grossman: Government-By-Anonymous-Officials Karl Grossman 2011
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I wondered if my need to fit in had been so complete, my determination to dispel the stereotype of egocentric American arrogance so strong, that I'd actually drowned in cultural co-dependency.
Diagnosis: American Sally Houtman 2011
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This is less a trading relationship than co-dependency.
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I think the agenda for getting out of it is a recognition that there is a co-dependency between the public and the private.
Is capitalism broken... and what is the world going to do to fix it? 2011
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In the end, when a financial system is dominated by banks that are too big to fail – and they do fail – the only options are an FDIC-style takeover or the kind of public-private co-dependency that we see today.
Wonk Room » Stress Tests Results In And Taxpayers Are Staying On The Hook 2009
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