🔼: [[💡 Limerence|Limerence]] ###### Love Addiction Pia Melody describes three characteristics of Love Addiction: 1. We expect unconditional positive regard from another person 2. We assign too much value to them. We value them more than ourselves and put them on a pedistal 3. We neglect ourselves while in the relationship. We’re trying to get the unconditional love we should have gotten in childhood. Until we go through [[💡 Withdrawal|withdrawal]] and allow ourselves to feel the feelings that we’re trying to avoid through our relationships, those wounds cannot heal because they can’t be accessed. [[🔑 We need Nothing]] — the absence is what allows the wound to surface. ###### Resources - 📖 Facing Love Addiction - [[🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏾 Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)]] [^1]: