Your mother's new husband, Al, does not want her to work. Al also controls the checkbook and discourages your mother from having any close friends. She appears to go along with this because she feels she needs a man in the house. The situation between them is known as

A. cyberbullying.
B. self-disclosure.
C. codependency.
D. maintenance.


Answer: C

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