Love Addiction
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What is Love Addiction?
The term of love addiction describes an individual that may be addicted to or compulsively attracted to the idea of being in love usually accompanied by a fantasy of what the love should be like.
Am I or someone that I know a love addict?
The love addicted individual often unconsciously picks a love-avoidant person to be in a relationship with, recreating the abandonment wound from their family of origin. A very common cycle for sex addicts is to be love-avoidant in their primary relationship, and uses sex addiction as a way to create distance from their partner, but when acting out in their sex addiction (often with another partner), they idealize that sexual partner in a fantasy-high of arousal and increased adrenaline.
The love addicted individual often unconsciously picks a love-avoidant person to be in a relationship with, recreating the abandonment wound from their family of origin. A very common cycle for sex addicts is to be love-avoidant in their primary relationship, and uses sex addiction as a way to create distance from their partner, but when acting out in their sex addiction (often with another partner), they idealize that sexual partner in a fantasy-high of arousal and increased adrenaline.