Love Addiction, an acute and fierce emotional pain focusing on a love interest, that some people will sacrifice almost anything to keep.
While it is true that more Men than Women seek help for Sex/porn Addiction, more Women than men seek help for Love Addiction. However, of course there are both Men and Women in each category and it's common to find a Love Addicted female with a Sex Addicted male in an ultimately destructive relationship.
So what is Love Addiction?
Love addiction: e.g. people that believe they can't live without their lover and this becomes top priority in their life, often in the extreme, causing self neglect or neglect of children and other important factors in life. The extent of emotional pain that the person experiences, is devastating.
People can grow up believing extremely negative things about themselves.
One common belief is not feeling good enough, so when your partner doesn't text you back that same evening, 'I'm not good enough' is triggered and anxiety/panic can escalate. Also, believing I'm 'unloveable', is common, so when you see another man being very affectionate and attentive to his partner, you realiise, I don't have that so, 'I must be unloveable' is triggered. These thoughts and beliefs have not randomly arrived in your mind, they are from a piece of the jigsaw of your life.They can be a hard task master and make you very unhappy. You may have noticed that your new partner is treating you in a similar way, to past partners and you eventually feel the same in every relationship. You spend most of your time thinking about your partner and all he is or is not doing. Let me help you to understand the 'why' behind this and to leave these unhelpful negative thoughts, feelings and beliefs behind.
We do this by using 'Inner child' work to uncover deep sensitivites that have led to compulsive behaviour in relationships. We explore and help the 'inner child' feel secure and able to let go of compulsive behaviour that is damaging to us.
