Whats the difference between loving someone, and obsession??
Obsessive love is a form of love where one person is emotionally obsessed with another. Love addiction is a process addiction where a person becomes attached to another in an unhealthy, dependent manner. Relationship addiction is a process addiction where a person becomes addicted to his or her relationship. Codependency is a term used to described when a person becomes dependent upon another for emotional and physical validation. Definition Moore, Forward and Buck believe that rejection is the trigger of obsessive love – also known as love addiction or relationship addiction. They state four conditions to help identify it, namely, a painful and all-consuming preoccupation with a real or wished-for lover, an insatiable longing either to possess or be possessed by the target of their obsession, rejection by or physical and/or emotional unavailability of their target, and being driven to behave in self-defeating ways by this rejection or unavailability. Two Key Charactersitics • Obsessiv
