How much does your partner's opinion affect the way you feel about yourself? Most people want to feel accepted, valued, and acknowledged by the person they love. You may want your partner to recognize your feelings, appreciate your strengths, understand where you struggle, or reassure you when you're feeling insecure. Co-dependency on a partner and needing healthy acknowledgements, compliments and recognition is not the same.  There is a vast difference between requiring acknowledgements from your partner and needing their approval to feel good about yourself. When your confidence, decisions, appearance, abilities, or sense of self-worth repeatedly depend on how your…