Humans have had at least two hundred thousand years to settle into codependency—and that’s discounting the time our more primal ancestors spent getting us ready to mingle. Though that number may be but a drop in the bucket of the universe at large, it’s still breathtaking in scope. And yet I’ve been operating as though I—having leased space on planet Earth for a mere twenty-seven years—am somehow exempt from the behavioral inclinations my forebears fostered for millennia.
