We've talked about sex addiction here on Vitamin G, but I bet you didn't know that one could have an addiction to ... love. Yep, what sort of sounds like a good thing can actually morph into a serious affliction, says one health expert. Could you be addicted to love?
On the Oprah Show yesterday, TV M.D. Dr. Drew discussed the world of love addiction, where people become obsessed with ... that loving feeling. It's not always about sex, but rather the kissing and the snuggling and the attention from a partner--to the point that it becomes a constant need.
One woman, "Amber," joined him on Oprah's couch, where she confessed her struggle with love addiction (and simultaneously scared away all future dates for the next century). She talked about meeting a guy when she was 19 and staying obsessed with him for 12 years.
"I'm big into finding one guy and just obsessing," she said, describing how when she falls for a guy, she can't stop calling, emailing, Facebooking him to the point that it's all she can think about.
"I want him to love me all the time constantly," she said.
Dr. Drew says there really is something to love addiction, and he sees it most often in women who were abused or traumatized by men as children. When we have terrorizing experiences in childhood, he explained, we tend to become "repetitively attracted" to the same type of person who did the abusing/traumatizing, or so the theory goes.
Do you still obsess over a past relationship? Have you ever been "addicted" to love? Or, do you think this is nonsense?
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