I Am a Love Addict

Sometimes they say your strengths are your weaknesses. My love for other people has been a reason for living. Recently a friend told me she thinks I love everyone, and I laughed, and said it's true. It's not cheesy, it's like my spirit...

I always fancied myself to be the rescuer. Coming to save a "damsel in distress" and earning her love. I guess that is the root of it, I felt like I was unlovable if I did not have some grand gesture to prove that I was not worthless...

Here is a very incomplete list of things that I confuse with real love...

physical intimacy (with or without sexual intimacy)
dependency
obsession
neediness
premature emotional or physical attachment
being "in a relationship"
romantic...

As I am in my late twenties, nearing 30, I look back at my life. All I know and have known is this need to be loved and accepted. Endlessly searching for the person who will end my pain, my loneliness.. put worth in me. For a hand that...

I think I have finally hit rock bottom. The only thing I do know for sure is I have come to EP for lots of things and today I came looking for help. I have realized that I have been using love as a drug. Cyber and phone sex as well...

I don't know how to stop getting involved with men i have no business getting involved with, breaking people's hearts because i am too terrified to get too close...well let's see... i was married once for a few years, then left him for...

far far away =(

Distance may cause many tears
And it may also bring fear
But if our love is clear
It will never disappear
Whether we are far or near
We will persevere
For with a love deep and sincere
We will always be each...

I need a boy who can be there for me when im alone
I need a boy that will send me cute goodmorning and goodnight texts
I need a boy that will support me and love me for who I am
I need a boy that will hold me in his arms when I need to...

These past few weeks have been hell for me. I have recently come out to my boyfriend of 11 months that I have been lying compulsively our entire relationship. And its something that I have been doing my entire life. I do it because I...

I am a love addict. There is always someone I am obsessed with. At any given time in my life, if you come up to me and ask me who I’m obsessed with, I will always have an answer. My whole life revolves around that person...

I started SLAA meetings knowing I was about to fly across country to meet a woman I'd fallen in love with online.  It was scary because I love to tell stories, but if I told this story about how unsober I was going to be, what...

I went to an SLAA meeting today. At first I though that it would be rediculous, but after I listened to the "Characteristics of Sex and Love addiction" I realized that I had a lot of them (if not all). It helped me to put some of the...

I have a very serious problem with love and sex. I am a love addict. I am addicted to the attention and love of others. I cannot live this way anymore. 
I am married, yet I still pursue relationships, whether virtual or...

Night owl soaring lonely and perching

on each new yellow bird

Where are you going to lie tonight?

Love costs more than your willing to spare

Your soul belongs to the universe

but feathers and soft flesh you'll easily share...

I am a love addict.I did'nt know this is what I am until recently.I have been working on the co-dependency side of me for A LONG time.I recently discovered I am a "LOVE ADDICT".It hurts.I believe because I come from...

I am a love addict.
I've probably been a love addict since my childhood. Since I've been working the LAA program, I've had the opportunity to look back at my past relationships and see that I was addicted to all of them in one way or...

It came in the mail and it doesn't have a title on the cover lol..It's pretty long...I'll let you know how it goes :)

Was there a time when I wasn't addicted? I'm not sure... My parents didn't show their love, or honestly maybe they didn't love me. Food was my source of solace and comfort as a child. I spent my childhood depressed and angry and mean...

So with my long relationship history and from stories I have heard, I have gathered up a list of Red Flags to be wary of when you are dating or have met a new Special Someone. Red Flags don't mean you shouldn't date or care for a person...