Video: What is "love addiction"?
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Marc F. Kern
Marc F. Kern, Ph.D., has over 30 years of clinical psychotherapy experience helping people overcome their self-defeating habits and acquire the insights and skills to live happier lives. He has a deep personal understanding of the addictive process and continues his lifelong research of contemporary treatments for addiction and other destructive behaviors.
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By Marc F. Kern
Published on 04/18/2008
Love addiction is about the extreme of it. It is not really about love. It's about, again, feeling good and getting that feeling through an obsessive-compulsive way.
It is really not about what we would typically understand as love and affection and warmth and cuddling and things like that.
It is generally not seen as a healthy preoccupation with another individual. It's seen as sort of a mechanical, almost using, of the other to get a particular emotional experience inside.
It is generally not seen as a healthy preoccupation with another
individual. It's seen as sort of a mechanical, almost using, of the
other to get a particular emotional experience inside.
Love addiction is about the extreme of it. It is not really about love. It's about, again, feeling good and getting that feeling through an obsessive-compulsive way.
It is really not about what we would typically understand as love and affection and warmth and cuddling and things like that.
It is generally not seen as a healthy preoccupation with another individual. It's seen as sort of a mechanical, almost using, of the other to get a particular emotional experience inside.