Are You In Love or Just Addicted? 7 Signs You Might Have a Love Addiction

Are you truly in love with your partner, or is the behavior you exhibit more consistent with that of a love addict? The approach you take when you start a relationship determines whether it will be healthy and stable or if it goes down a toxic path. Love addicts are motivated to enter into a romantic relationship not to find compatibility, but because they have an irrational fear of being alone. Due to their insecurities, anxieties, and neediness, they develop a co-dependency, and so paradoxically, they can’t stand being apart, and yet they are always miserable when together. How can you tell if your relationship is based on a love addiction rather than genuine love and mutual respect? Here are 7 warning signs that you might be a love addict.

You have this persistent feeling that a breakup is imminent

A love addict’s perpetual fear of being forever alone doesn’t end once they’re in a relationship. If anything, it only exacerbates these feelings since a breakup and abandonment are something that can become a reality, not merely imagined in the abstract. As a result of this mindset, the addict never feels secure enough in the relationship to ever trust their partner.