Reciprocity Nexus

"Codependent" is love-song. But with a twist. Some unions are sprung from very healthy sources. Two people just love each other. But others spring from darker. sources...the need to enable some darker need. Classically, that could be a harmful substance -- alcoholics and drug addicts propping each other up and colliding in denial about the harm they do themselves, each other and the people around them. But it can also be other, less obvious reasons.

In the case of my (now deceased) parents, it was colluding in covering up the stark fact that one of my siblings was in need of help more than the others. Although there was a lot of love in our house, there was also a lot of dysfunction. One example of which was that both my parents colluded extraordinarily in blatant denial of one of my brother's autism, despite the fact it was blatantly obvious to the rest of the world. Instead, they pretended that everything was fine and that said sibling was as capable as the rest of us.

The song is sung from the perspective of my parents as a love song to each other. (They did really love each other, dysfunction or nae). I thought that would make for a pretty interesting theme.