Limerence in Love Addiction: Understanding the Obsessive Desire for Love

Limerence is a term used to describe an intense and often obsessive form of romantic attraction. People who experience limerence may become fixated on a particular individual, experiencing intense emotional highs and lows in response to their feelings. This phenomenon is often associated with love addiction, a condition in which individuals become addicted to the […]

Differences in Sex Addiction: Gender and Sexual Orientation

Working in the field of Sex Addiction and through my experience directing and running a treatment program for Compulsive Sexual Behaviors in a residential treatment setting, I have observed differences in the population overtime. The two significant differences I would like to touch on today, not the only differences but simply two that I have […]

Love Addicts Cycle of Addiction

Exploration of the Fantasy Relationship: This is a simple yet very insightful exercise to follow if you are wanting to explore the possibility of the Love Addiction symptoms and traits that I have acknowledged in previous articles. This simple exercise lets you explore fantasy relationships and provides insight into past or current problematic relational dynamics. […]

Sex and Love Addiction

“Love Addiction”, Real or Not?

There is much controversy over the concept of “Love Addiction”, questions such as; can one be addicted to love? One of the fastest growing 12 step fellowships happens to be SLAA, standing for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, heck even Robert Palmer wrote a song with the chorus “might as well face it, your addicted […]