How do you know if you are a Love Addict?

By Jim Hall, M.A., Love Addiction Recovery Specialist

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Love Addicts create unhealthy and painful attachments to romance, people, sex, and the euphoria oflove relationships. Love Addicts commonly search outside of themselves to feel alive and fill theirunmet emotional needs. Love Addicts unconsciously look for others to "fix"-"rescue" them from thefear, pain, and discomfort of their lives. Being a Love Addict can be an emotionally painful, lonely,and baffling experience. In the addictive aspect of love addiction, withdrawing from an addictedrelationship for love addicts (when a relationship ends) can be difficult than withdrawing fromheroin or other drugs or addictive behaviors; often the pain and shock can be ruthless. But how doesone know if they are a love addict or has tendencies towards love addiction. The following questionscan help answer this question.

Are you a Love Addict?

o Are you afraid of loneliness and fall into relationships with unavailable people?

o Do you get stuck in relationships and that aren't going anywhere?

o Do you see the potential your partner has, yet it just out of reach?

o Do you let fantasies get in the way of reality?

o Do you consistently believe the relationship will get better and be like it was in the beginning oncecircumstances change and get better?

o In romantic relationships, do you ignore or deny who the other person truly is?

o Do you continue to make excuses for the other person's abusive or distancing behavior?

o Do you crave love and intimacy but also run away from it?

o Do you have dreams or fantasies of meeting the perfect soul mate to rescue you so you can feel selfworth?

o Do you panic at the thought of losing your partner and being alone?

o Do you consistently give and give to others to gain a feeling of self worth

o Do you continue to give love and support to your partner even when it is obvious that partner isnot reciprocating?

o Do get into love relationships with people who have lots of problems, drama, or issues?

o Do you continually obsess about a love partner after breaking up, even though you know therelationship wasn't good for you?

o Do you feel intense and emotionally painful withdrawal symptoms after the end of a loverelationship?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a Love Addict. If this is the case, there is away out.

The pattern of Love Addiction does not go away on its own. You cannot will it away. You cannot findthe perfect person who will take it away. Love Addiction is an ingrained pattern. There is a way out,Recovery.

Author's Bio:Â

Jim Hall, M.S., is a Love Addiction Expert, Author on Love Addiction and Recovering. He coachesLove Addicts how to recover, heal, and break their addiction to relationships, online atwww.LoveAddictionHelp.com.

Jim authors several popular Books on love addiction and recovery, available on one of the best loveaddiction recovery websites- www.loveaddictionhelp.com. Or click on the links to learn about thebooks:

- Surviving Withdrawal: The Breakup Workbook for Love Addicts.

http://loveaddictionhelp.com/surviving_withdrawal

- The Love Addict in Love Addiction

http://loveaddictionhelp.com/about_book

- Gateway to Recovery

http://loveaddictionhelp.com/ebooks

Jim is currently completing a Love Addiction Rehab Recovery Program series for love andrelationship addiction which will soon be available on www.loveaddictionhelp.com. Also on hiswebsite are free articles, tips, and other related information on love addiction, recovery andrelationship issues: http://www.loveaddictionhelp.com/