Is relationship addiction a real thing?
The experience of “addiction” is when we want something too much and we feel like we need something so badly that we can’t live or experience happiness without it.
With that understanding, many people are addicted to relationships. They seemingly can’t distance themselves even when they know they are clearly being harmed by continuing in certain relationships.
Consider the following people and how they might view their relationships:
A 16-year-old girl is glued to her phone, awaiting the next message from the boy she seems entranced with. Her regular eating patterns, homework, and even her long-time friends have all been pushed away due to her new fixation on the seeming love she has found. Even though he doesn’t treat her well, she seems committed. A friend just got married for the 5th time and can’t ever seem to be alone when each relationship ends abruptly. Even in his marriage, this has created an unhealthy scenario when loneliness and dissatisfaction set in and attachments with others crowd out his relational priorities. An older couple never marries, but they live together in a cantankerous mood for nearly 40 years. She makes good spaghetti and he
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