Addicted to Love

A friend once told me, one classic symptom of addiction to someone is redialing his number for 37 times in one hour if no one answers (resulted "37 missed calls" on the guy's mobile display).

Last night, I googled 'Love Addiction' and found a list of signs and characteristics of the addicts, here are some to share: -

• 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
• Depressed
• Highly manipulative and controlling of others
• Perceive attraction, attachment, and sex as basic human needs, on a par with food and water
• Feelings that a relationship makes one whole, or more of a man or woman
• Intense need to control self, others, circumstances
• Presence of other addictive or compulsive problems (Water's note: e.g. cigarette addiction)
• Using others, sex & relationships to alter mood or relieve emotional pain
• Continual questioning of values and lifestyle
• Confusion of sexual attraction with love ("Love at first sight")
• Tendency to leave one relationship for another. (Inability to be without a relationship.)
• Attempts to replace lost relationships with a new one immediately

Keep the result of the self diagnosis to yourself. If needed, I can recommend you the book "How to break your addiction to a person" which is quite handy... and interesting. Don't ask me why was I reading such a book.

(sourced from http://www.recovery-man.com/loveaddict.htm)