Is It Love or Is It Addiction? Transformative Book on Modern Romance & Relationships - Perfect for Couples Therapy, Self-Help & Psychology Enthusiasts
Is It Love or Is It Addiction? Transformative Book on Modern Romance & Relationships - Perfect for Couples Therapy, Self-Help & Psychology Enthusiasts

Is It Love or Is It Addiction? Transformative Book on Modern Romance & Relationships - Perfect for Couples Therapy, Self-Help & Psychology Enthusiasts

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A fresh, updated, and expanded edition of the book that changed the way we think about romance and intimacy.Many of us confuse longing and obsession with true love. Through two previous editions, Is It Love or Is It Addiction? has helped countless people find their way from the trials and confusion of addictive love to the fulfillment of whole and healthy relationships. As the author reveals, we can begin to work through relationship difficulties with compassion and lasting effect by increasing our awareness of the ways that we express love. In this expanded third edition, Brenda Schaeffer draws on years of feedback and new developments to foster an understanding of love addiction: what it is and what it is not, how to identify it, and, even more important, how to break free of it. Stories of real people struggling to develop sound relationships illustrate the characteristics of healthy love and help readers to free themselves to find real intimacy. Included is the most up-to-date information about the biological basis of addictive behaviors and the impact of technology on intimate relationships. The author also explores the influence of past abuse and trauma on the predisposition to love addiction.

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I had been involved in a relationship with one woman I believe is 'beautiful and sensuous', but soon found myself reeling under an extremely co-dependent relationship where I tried to define my life values through her eyes. In spite of red-flags, we kept 'seeping under', we found it difficult to get over our urges to contact/control each-other even when the relationship was over, and she had started dating other guys. As I realized that I was in a co-dependent relationship, I decided to fix it, I bought quite a few books on the subject. So far this is the best I have come across.A very tersely written book that concentrates on what is right rather than giving several examples of what is wrong. What I find best about this book is that it attacks the distinction of love and addiction discussed in the most scientific viewpoint rather than from a purely behaviourial/psychological aspect. Of course it has all the definitions and explanations, but it never encouraged to 'spoonfeed' the solution. It rather created a background understanding of the problem from a clinical and philosophical aspect. It religiously encouraged clearing the concepts, and quite rightly, once the concepts are cleared the mistakes and solutions were just clear to see.I am a scientist by profession and would not accept any argument without a chain of reasons supporting it (in that way, you can say I have a co-dependency on 'reasoning':)). I was finding it difficult to just 'eat-up' the solutions and recommendations presented by the other highly-rated books, until this book reached me, and taught me how rationally analyse such problems and create our own healthy set of recommendations instead of co-depending on books to recommend us.