The Road Less Traveled

"Dependency may appear to be love because it is a force that causes people to
attach themselves to one another. But in actuality it is not love; it is a form
of anti-love. It seeks to receive rather than to give. It nourishes
infantilism rather than growth, it ultimately destroys rather than builds.
It is not love when you require another individual for your survival.
Instead you are a parasite on that other person, there is no choice, no freedom,
involved in your relationship. It is a necessity rather than love."

-Dr. M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled.