Navigating Love: Overcoming Codependency & Toxic Relationship Bonds

Discover The Path To Healthy Relationships & Free Yourself From Codependency & Love Addiction

Codependence and Love Addiction

Codependence is often characterized as an unhealthy over-reliance on others, coupled with a disregard for one's own needs and boundaries. This tendency can manifest through behaviors such as caretaking, people-pleasing, and enabling someone else's dysfunction.

In addition to these behaviors, codependence can also be accompanied by symptoms such as low self-worth, low self-esteem, and cloudy communication. Those who struggle with codependence may relate to other people through control, denial, compliance, or avoidance.

Love addiction and love avoidance are common patterns associated with codependency in romantic relationships. However, these patterns can also occur in relationships with friends, family members, and authority figures.

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Love addiction is not necessarily an addiction to love itself but rather an addiction to the concept of love. Individuals with love addiction may be drawn to the intensity, denial, control, and extreme excitement that come with love-addicted relationships.