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* Seductive withholders – come onto you when they want sex or companionship but withhold when frightened or feel unsafe. * Saboteurs – destroy relationships when they start to get serious. * Torch bearers – obsess about someone who is unavailable. They desperately crave love but are terrified of intimacy.Īmbivalent love addicts can come in different forms such as: These love addicts are only revealed when they are left, often appearing aloof and uncaring, they switch to panic and will use anything to hold onto the relationship – including violence.Īmbivalent love addicts – have a hard time moving forward, although they can let go. They are self-absorbed and won’t put up with anything that interferes with their happiness. Narcissistic love addicts – use dominance, seduction and withholding to control their partners. They are afraid of being alone and they don’t like change. “I hate you but please don’t leave me!” Sounds twisted, but relationship addicts are so unhappy that their health, spirit and emotional wellbeing are affected. Relationship addicts – aren’t in love with their partner but still can’t let go e.g. They will do anything to “take care” of their partners in the hope they will not leave or one day they’ll reciprocate. They are desperately holding onto people they are addicted to through co-dependant behaviour (enabling, rescuing, caretaking, passive-aggressive controlling or accepting neglect or abuse). Obsessed love addicts – can’t let go of someone they love, even if that person has moved on, is distant or abusive, or has their own addiction to something unrelated such as drugs or alcohol.Ĭo-dependant love addicts – have low self-esteem. Types of love addicts identified by Life Coach and Love Addiction Expert Susan Peabody from Brighter Tomorrow (1) include: However, some take it to a whole new level. There are no statistics on love addiction, when I asked one of Sydney’s top psychologists about it, the response was that we are all love addicts to some extent. All I can recommend is that if you are finding yourself addicted to love, or a person, then to join a support group such as SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) to try to help understand and cope with it.
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That may come later, but at this stage, I don’t have the answers.
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It’s important that I note upfront that this blog is not about how to break love addiction. One of my most well received posts has been ‘ All about toxic relationships and how to let go‘ and this week Happiness Weekly is looking at Love Addiction – one of the fastest growing addictions in the world as people cling to love for their happiness. I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic. When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t… Luke Davies But in my heart, you’re still the reigning King.