The paradox is that Romance addiction is an attempt to gain control of our lives, and in so doing; we go out of control by giving personal power to someone outside ourselves.
Addictive love is an attempt to satisfy our developmental hunger for security, sensation, power, belonging, and meaning. Romance addiction is very often associated with feelings of “never having enough” or “not being enough.”
None of us got everything we needed in just the way we needed it in our developmental history. We literally walk around with holes in our psyche and look for others to fill those holes.
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