Counselling
FEMALE RELATIONSHIP/LOVE/PORNSEX ADDICTION TREATMENT
Emotional highs, such as intense passion, and emotional lows, like intense disappointment or heartbreak, can eventually strain a relationship. This can lead to resentment, which becomes the core of love and relationship addiction. Consequently, love addiction may have intense elements of a lack of control in their sexuality. It is central to Female Relationship/Love/Porn/Sex Addiction treatment. Addressing these patterns helps individuals regain control and rebuild healthy relationships.
Love addicts tend to find themselves in brief and intense romantic relationships that are rarely long-term. However, if in a long-term relationship, they often experience relational highs and lows. Furthermore, love addicts tend to withdraw from romantic or sexual relationships to avoid feelings of vulnerability.
Love addicts tend to expend tremendous amounts of energy on romantic relationships — whether involved in one or looking for one.
Love addiction tends to create fixations, compulsions, and addictive behaviors with loved ones and can result in divorce, affairs, poor job performance, relationship conflict, poor concentration, enmeshment, clinginess, and emotional distress including anxiety and depression.
Healing the wounds
Often, the cause of love addiction is rooted in low self-esteem, lack of self-love, genetics, upbringing, attachment, filling emotional needs, and childhood trauma. Individuals lacking self-esteem or who had less-than-nurturing childhoods may grow up seeking constant reassurance from others and the excitement of being “in love.” Female Relationship/Love/Porn/Sex Addiction treatment helps explore early childhood issues, addressing their relationship with current destructive behavior patterns. While admiration for a romantic partner is normal, love addicts may become obsessively focused, even to their detriment.
Common Signs of a Love Addict
- Needing to be in love
- An exaggerated sense of responsibility for others’ actions
- Obsessing over romantic relationships
- Unhealthy dependence on relationships
- Needing to fall in love often
- Inability to be alone
- Fear of being abandoned or alone
- Difficulty identifying feelings
- Problems with intimacy/boundaries
- Difficulty making decisions
- Difficulty in leaving relationship even if they were abusive
Moreover, if the love addict cannot maintain the attention or affection of their loved one, he or she can experience feelings of anxiety or even get depressed as their relationships begin to fall apart. The stress love addicts can put on themselves to obtain love, or the compulsive need to maintain or form relationships can become a distracting factor in poor job function or wellbeing. As a result, they can begin to neglect their self-care, further neglecting their needs as they become consumed by emotional highs and lows. They may not be able to function within healthy patterns without someone there to love or be loved by, seeing it as an act of betrayal.
For females, addiction is more prevalent as love and relationship addiction but can at times still present itself as typical porn and sex addiction clinical picture and symptoms.
