Any one else feel this?

Thank you very much triplemoon18!!!

Maybe a dumb question, why are most of these books aimed at women?

I couldn't go more than half a day without feeling edgy and the anxiety of separation and perceived abandonment starting to loom if I didn't hear from my g/f.

Wind Runner - Actually the books are for men too. And I have seen a memoir on amazon about a man recovering from love addiction.

Relationship Addiction: A Memoir: How One Man “Sobered Up” from one of the World’s Most Common Addictions and How You Can Too

And I know those feelings all too well - the feelings of anxiety and abandonment. I just don't feel them with my fiance. When I first met him, I totally did and I worked through them and realized I like not talking to him all day and catching up when we see each other at home.

wind runner wrote:Love addiction has been mentioned quite a bit in this thread.

Anyone care to elaborate?

On a side note started with new therapist and she seems right on the money, yay

For me my love addiction is the need to be with them 24 hours a day, think about them constantly all day every day, longing for work to be over so i can see them, touch them do things with them ..cant (couldnt) function without them, throughout my relationships i deliberately picked men that didnt work so i would always have them around...odd to analyze this now but i have learnt a lot about my behavour over the last year or so and i can finally see my past behavior, before i was self aware i couldnt see this but i can now.

After being single for 18 months i can be alone without any neediness (its relationships that made my neediness worst) but im hopefully in some sort of control over my additions (hopefully) i will only be able to tell you when im in my next relationship. though i do actually feel different, you see i usually "end and replace" as i hate the grieving process of a failed relationship, but i have to say this is the first time i havent replaced ..i had no option but to be single (small village) no single men lol so it kinda helped me ..i think at least