INTERDEPENDENCE - Other Revelations: There are three stages in one’s overall development. There is dependence. There is independence. And there is interdependence. In the simplest way, this is demonstrated in people’s lives by the fact that they are very dependent when they are infants and young children, slowly growing out of dependence to a state of independence as adolescents or young adults, when they begin to differentiate from their parents and family. Then there is interdependence, when they are married and have a family or unite with other people in spiritual community and so forth.