Michael Porter, LICSW
Licensed Sex & Love Addiction Therapist
What is Love Addiction?
Understanding obsessive relationship attachment, codependency, and learning how to establish secure, lasting intimacy.
Understanding Love & Relationship Addiction
Love addiction is most commonly associated with the compulsive need to be in a relationship or seek the constant affection and validation of others in an obsessive, desperate manner.
The love-addicted individual often prioritizes a partner or high-drama relationship above their own safety, self-esteem, career, family, and friendships. This intense need for attachment usually stems from early childhood trauma, emotional neglect, or severe fear of abandonment.
Characteristics & Questions to Consider:
- Have you remained in unhealthy or abusive relationships despite feeling miserable or detached?
- Do you feel intense panic, emptiness, or identity loss when not in a romantic relationship?
- Do you consistently choose emotionally unavailable, volatile, or dangerous partners over safe ones?
- Have you engaged in high-risk affairs or sexual encounters to self-soothe emotional distress?
Path to Secure Attachment
Through individual therapy, clients learn to understand their attachment style, grieve past relational losses, establish personal boundaries, and build self-worth independent of romantic validation.
Love Addiction — Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about obsessive relationship patterns and attachment recovery.
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