Love addiction is as unreasonable as sex addiction

Courage is a resistance to fear, not a lack of fear.

Love addicts spend most of their time finding the perfect love interest, or breaking away from the current relationship so that they can focus on new lovers. They keep checking their profiles on Match.com, Eharmony, Ashley Madison (even if they aren’t married), JDATE (even if they aren’t Jewish) and so on. Almost every decision is doing what to do, what to wear, where to eat, where to socialize, where to exercise, where to exercise, what work, what jobs there are, their desire to meet and hook up with them, make them feel complete and excited, and make them feel complete and full of interest. But that’s not what they’re really looking for. Like gender and porn addicts, drug addicts, and all other addicts, love addicts take their behavior as distractions – get rid of stress, depression, anxiety, and other forms of emotional and psychological discomfort.

Today’s mission
When you feel the compulsive urge to pursue romance, consider the feelings you want to avoid. Then talk about these feelings with your therapist, your sponsor, or friends in recovery.