What role does the "dependee" play for a person with dependent personality disorder?

What role does the "dependee" play for a person with dependent personality disorder?

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Usually what you'll find is that the dependee in a dependent personality disorder situation is a person with their own issues. The dependee may enjoy the sense of power that they have over the person suffering from dependent personality disorder. The dependee may be someone with a need to care for someone else. Otherwise, if you don't have those issues, you're going to get out of that dependent relationship pretty quickly, and you're going to create a lot of anxiety for the dependent person.