Individuals who ignore their own needs in order to focus on an alcoholic friend or family member are codependent.

a. True

b. False

That statement is true

In general, codependent individuals are considered to have dysfunctional relationship because it often create a situation when one individual enable the bad behavior that displayed by other individual.

Example of a codependency would be a women who decided to give all of her saving to enable her unemployed boyfriend to drink in a bar.