a dependency

As a result, women often fainted, which enforced a dependency and the notion of feminine weakness within a male-dominated society. Later in the eighteenth century, women emphasised a more voluptuous figure and began to employ more ...
http://sexuality-n-you.blogspot.com/2008/12/history-of-lingerie-chastity-belts.html

... boring, a pain, a burden, a dependency, an excuse, pathetic or something i should have outgrown. i guess it's about emotional maturity. my family seems incapable of emotional maturity although lyra is a psychologist. you know how it ...
http://hearingpeoplesuck.blogspot.com/2008/12/dawn-oranges-clouds.html