Are You A Relationship Addict?

How Relationship Addiction Could Spell Doom On Your Marriage

Relationship addiction is as dangerous and addictive as sexual addictions or eating disorders. It could be dangerous to both the victim and their partners. Relationship addiction is the root cause for many evils like suicides, murders, and rapes. Glorified in love stories and movies, love addictions can in reality spell doom on any marriage.

Watch out for any of the following symptoms to find out whether a person suffers from this or not:

Low Self Esteem

Low esteemed people will be oversensitive to criticisms and might feel a sense of worthlessness and loneliness. They won’t ask help from others and often live in a self imposed exile. Relationship addicts often accept sex even though what they are looking for is love.

Self Pity

Women who are relationship addicts would consider themselves miserable and hopeless and they try to escape from this vicious circle by burying themselves in someone else's chaotic life. They deny all the pleasures of life, for someone else’s well being and happiness. Thus they will have an uncanny capability to sense their partner’s needs even though they do not know what they want.

Pleasing Others to Avoid Rejection

Relationship addicts fight rejection by sacrificing their needs and doing things for others. By putting other people’s needs ahead of their own, they try to buy acceptance and love. However, most people find this helping hand a form of interference, which they resent.

Cure For Relationship Addiction

Self discipline and ensuring mental discipline will make your road to recovery shorter and smoother. Chuck out the far factor and rediscover your self esteem and personality

• Develop a new sense of belonging, which will enable you to shed the feeling of emptiness and loneliness
• There is no room for fear and apprehensions in your life. Act with courage and live with dignity
• Shed the guilt of the past and present failures and make your mind happy and stable.
• Feel the effect of genuine love by loving and being loved.
• I am capable of maintaining healthy and loving relationships.
• My deeds and words can bring me self worth and I no longer need to rely solely on others.

Once you condition your mid you will start feeling less miserable and your self esteem and social acceptance improves. Being needed makes you feel worthy and capable.

Recommended Reading: The Art of Approaching Women by Joseph Matthews

An interesting and simple book by Joseph Matthews tells you in details about the various relationship issues and how to get over them with ease. Addiction of any type is not good and now the time has come for you to lead a normal and happy life. Make your marriage romantic and stable with these handy tips.

I love this site a lot... I am a relationship addict. I lost my husbad last year and I just got a boyfriend and then lost him too becuase I am too possessive ... I want to change. I am happy I get to open to this website. ITS VERY WORTHWHILE... - Ann - 2007-05-05