What is Love addiction?

[redsky99]

What are some examples of how a person can fall into love addiction? I know love is a healthy thing, but what are some example of where is has gone too far?

[savvyeyty]

Just like what is stated above this page. When its actually codependency and not feelings.

[Zen4life]

In Recovery-man.com, the signs and characteristics of love addiction are listed in detail. Here they are:

Signs and Characteristics of Love Addiction:

* Lack of nurturing and attention when young
* Feeling isolated, detached from parents and family
* Compartmentalization of relationships from other areas of life
* Outer facade of "having it all together" to hide internal disintegration
* Mistake intensity for intimacy (drama driven relationships)
* Hidden Pain
* Seek to avoid rejection and abandonment at any cost
* Afraid to trust anyone in a relationship
* Inner rage over lack of nurturing, early abandonment
* Depressed
* Highly manipulative and controlling of others
* Perceive attraction, attachment, and sex as basic human needs, on a par with food and water
* Sense of worthlessness without a relationship or partner
* Feelings that a relationship makes one whole, or more of a man or woman
* Escalating tolerance for high-risk behavior
* Intense need to control self, others, circumstances
* Presence of other addictive or compulsive problems
* Insatiable appetite in area of difficulty (sex, love or attachment / need.)
* Using others, sex & relationships to alter mood or relieve emotional pain
* Continual questioning of values and lifestyle
* Driven, desperate, frantic personality
* Confusion of sexual attraction with love ("Love" at first sight.)
* Tendency to trade sexual activity for "love" or attachment
* Existence of a secret "double life"
* Refusal to acknowledge existence of problem
* Defining out-of-control behavior as normal
* Defining "wants" as "needs"
* Tendency to leave one relationship for another. (Inability to be without a relationship.)
* Attempts to replace lost relationships with a new one immediately