If you tend to jump around from relationship to relationship, falling in love at a record speed and quickly feeling obsessed about your love interest, you may be suffering from a love addiction.  We most often think about love as a good thing, but when it leads to broken hearts, let-downs, and depression it can be anything but.  Love addicts tend to jump headfirst into relationships, quickly moving towards feelings of love.  This may be at a speed that your partner is not comfortable with, leading to a relationship that doesn’t work out.  When this pattern is repeated, quickly falling in love with intense feelings towards someone, you may be suffering from a love addiction.

Love addicts are often trying to fill a void through the love of a partner.  This may be traced back to a childhood trauma or abuse.  The compulsive need to love and be loved can lead to addiction-like behavior as an adult.  This can affect your entire life, rushing relationships before they are ready and leading to compulsive behavior.  At Campbell Recovery Services we have experience working with love addicts to create healthy relationships with their partners.

If you are quick to fall in love, professing this very early in every relationship that you enter, you may be a love addict.  Those suffering from love addiction are often looking to fill a void in their life.  This may stem back to childhood, where they desired attention and affection but struggled to receive this, or the love addiction may come from some past trauma.  Either way, this is an unhealthy way to go into relationships with feelings so intense that they become obsessive and overpowering. 

Overwhelming feelings of love can make you act in a way that you may not normally behave, particularly in the early stages of a relationship.  This can make a partner feel quickly overwhelmed and even panicked by the intense emotions that you convey in these early stages.  Love addicts often have trouble maintaining relationships because of the intensity of their feelings in the early stages.  Your partner may not yet reciprocate the same feelings.  This can lead to heartbreak for the love addict, who feels overwhelming and intense feelings for their significant other.  After a breakup, the love addict may have powerful bouts of sadness and even depression.  However, when the next relationship comes along, they are ready to jump in once again and quickly give their love to this new partner. 

This cycle can be detrimental to relationships, causing the love addict to miss out as they frighten people away with their intensity and obsession.  It is difficult to create and maintain a healthy relationship for love addicts struggling with their addiction.  They spend too much time feeling heart-broken by unrequited love and struggle with these emotions.

By dealing with the root cause of the love addiction, whether past childhood trauma, neglect, or some other event, you can begin to overcome this pattern of fast and intense love.  Through therapy and counseling, these past emotions can be addressed while also giving you the tools to handle relationships in a healthier way going forward.  This can help you to better understand yourself, your partner, and instead let the feelings of love develop over time.  Through these changes, you can begin to have a healthy, two-sided relationship that will endure the test of time.

To begin the healing process from a love addition, the patient first needs to understand why their behavior is the way that it is.  Counseling and therapy can help you to dig below the surface, peeling back the layers to find what has led to your love addiction.  In addressing this, you can begin to learn how to create and maintain healthier relationships that won’t always lead to a broken heart.  Eliminating the obsession that can show in the early stages of a relationship can instead let this take a more natural course and progress over time.

At Campbell Recovery Services we work with those suffering from love addiction.  Delving into the root cause of this addiction, our team can help love addicts understand themselves better and recognize this unhealthy pattern in relationships.  This can allow you to lead a much happier life, with healthy relationships that will grow and develop naturally.