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- 6 Signs Your Partner is Love Avoidant - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2013 from Jim HallAre you in a relationship with a Love Avoidant? In addictive love relationships, the Love Addict repeatedly attracts individuals with particular signs - and in turn, people with these particular signs are attracted to the love addict. The type of person I am speaking of is the Love Avoidant. ...
Views: 8772(1 vote) - Unrealistic Expectations : An Unhealthy Ingredient of Addictive Love - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2013 from Jim HallAs human beings, we live our lives with certain expectations. For emotionally healthy individuals, expectations are more likely to be realistic and rational -- based on reality. For individuals whose emotional health is less-than healthy, expectations are often unrealistic and impractical – ...
Views: 4521(1 vote) - No Contact Rule: When You'e Addicted to Love - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2013 from Jim HallNo Contact Rule Cutting Out the Ex and Moving Forward Healthy people who experience a relationship break up generally experience universal stages of grief such as anger, sadness, and disappointment. Eventually they come to accept the loss and move forward. For love addicts, moving ...
Views: 2621(1 vote) - Treating Love Addiction - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallPeople looking for the answers to overcoming their love addiction often ask two questions, “What does recovery really mean when it comes to breaking this problem”? ... and “What are key things I need to work on to successfully recover from love addiction”? When we are new to recovery, we may ...
Views: 3107(1 vote) - Treating Love Addiction - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallPeople looking for the answers to overcoming their love addiction often ask two questions, “What does recovery really mean when it comes to breaking this problem”? ... and “What are key things I need to work on to successfully recover from love addiction”? When we are new to recovery, we may ...
Views: 1626(1 vote) - Breaking Free from Love Addiction - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallLove Addiction can be loosely defined as a dysfunctional relationship between two people in which one person strives, almost compulsively, to 'fix' the other person. A characteristic behavior in Love Addiction is enabling, in which the love addict ignores problem behavior in the other person ...
Views: 1801(1 vote) - Love Addiction Recovery: Setting Boundaries - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2011 from Jim HallIn the 'Love Addict in Love Addiction' I write a lot about the five core symptoms which fuel the undue pain and dysfunction in addictive relationships. One important core symptom deserving attention is love addicts Impaired Boundaries in relationships. Too often, boundaries are invisible and ...
Views: 2492(1 vote) - The Nine Love Addict Types - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallLove addicts are known to become hooked and obsessed on another person in relationships. Love addicts tend to share core issues of damaged self esteem, boundaries; symptoms of rescue/care taking and unrealistic relational expectations, and they have in common noxious relational patterns. ...
Views: 5114(1 vote) - Love Addict Recovery: Setting Boundaries - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallIn the 'Love Addict in Love Addiction', I write a lot about the five core issues which is a large part of our pain and dysfunction in addictive relationships—one of these core issues of love addicts are Impaired Boundaries. Love addicts need boundaries. We need to set limits on what we shall ...
Views: 2724(2 votes) - Healing Love Addiction: Letting Go Of The Past - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim Hall“It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going” When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame and despair at calling ourselves “addicts”. In the beginning, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to heal and find new meaning in our lives. The past may ...
Views: 3889(1 vote) - Why Love Addicts Are Truely Like Any Other Addict - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallUsing a practical definition, addiction is characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance, behavior, or activity to reach euphoric states in the brain, despite negative consequences (harmful consequences to the individual's health, mental state or social life). ...
Views: 1890(2 votes) - Recovering Ground Rules for The Love Addict - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim Hall1- Understand the Dynamics of Love Addiction & Intricacies of Love Addicted Relationships A very important first step in recovery is to gain clarity into the intricacies of love addiction, the love addict, avoidant partner, and love addicted relationship dynamics. Understanding your ...
Views: 2436(2 votes) - The Recovery Ground Rules for Love Addicts - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Jim Hall* The following are some very critical ground rules needed for love addicts in order to pave a healthy, successful path in love addiction recovery. 1) Understand the Dynamics of Love Addiction & Intricacies of Love Addicted Relationships A very important first step in recovery is to ...
Views: 1997(1 vote) - Men in Love Addiction - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallIf you're a man- you're here for a reason. Maybe you're here because you're having relationship difficulties- or you are dealing with a relationship loss. And/or you identify yourself as having characteristics in love addiction- - YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Many mental health care professionals make ...
Views: 2528(2 votes) - Breaking up: The Love Addict in Withdrawal - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallTracy, a 30 year old love addict shares her story of a relationship break up: "When he said it was over, I stopped breathing. I could not gather my thoughts. I felt like it wasn't happening, but it was. It was surreal. My stomach turned up side down, my mouth was dry, I was sweating, my ...
Views: 8143(3 votes) - Love Addicts: 7 Steps To Feel Good About Yourself - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim Hall1.Don't make other peoples thoughts, feelings, or actions about YOU. In other words, with healthy emotional boundaries, don't take responsibility (or blame yourself) for what another person may do, say or think? You are not responsible (i.e., your partner or ex partner). As an adult, you are ...
Views: 1872(2 votes) - Love Addiction Recovery: Detachment, Boundaries, Self-Care - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallLove addiction recovery is about reclaiming our own lives. One part of our path to recovery learning and owning our right to focus on and take care of ourselves, build on our strengths, and ask for and accept help with our limitations. Many of us find it difficult even to begin this ...
Views: 3114(2 votes) - Toxic Seeds That Feed Love Addicts Delusion - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallFrom the beginning of our childhood- we are planted with seeds in our conscious. These seeds are the messages on love, romance, and relationships love addicts (and all of society) have been consistently bombarded with- that feed the DELUSION of addictive relationships. These fabricated seeds are ...
Views: 2205(2 votes) - Love Addiction: THE Hidden Addiction in Society - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallBy definition, an addiction or dependence is a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific behavior or activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual's health, mental state, or social life. People fall into many categories of addictions (alcohol, drugs, sex, ...
Views: 1597(1 vote) - Relationship Addiction: A Process Addiction - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2012 from Jim HallMost of us typically associate addiction with alcohol or drug abuse, but it's clear that addictive behaviors go far beyond. A universal definition of Addiction is characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance, behavior, or activity despite negative consequences (harmful ...
Views: 2326(1 vote) - 7 Steps to Overcome Withdrawal from a Break Up of an Addictive Relationship - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallAre You a Love Addict? Are you in a Break-Up from an Addictive Relationship? There is no doubt that for most people, “breaking up is hard to do”… for love addicts, breaking up is especially difficult. One of the most disturbing and defining features of addiction is withdrawal and obsessive ...
Views: 14535(3 votes) - Love Addiction: What is it? - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallLove Addiction is an unhealthy obsessive and dysfuntional dependency to another person in relationships. Love Addiction is finally being recognized as a serious problem and a serious addiction in the media and mental health professionals. Some have difficulty believing "love" can become an ...
Views: 3091(2 votes) - Love and Relationship Addiction: How do you know if you are a Love Addict? - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Jim HallLove Addicts create unhealthy and painful attachments to romance, people, sex, and the euphoria of love relationships. Love Addicts commonly search outside of themselves to feel alive and fill their unmet emotional needs. Love Addicts unconsciously look for others to “fix”-“rescue” them from the ...
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