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TTU ADRS 3329 Love-The Hungry Heart Lecture Slides
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- ADRS 3329
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TTU ADRS 3329 Love-The Hungry Heart Lecture Slides
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5/8/2017+
Love- Addiction and Relationships
the hungry heart
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Addictions
All addictions:
Attempt to control pleasure and pain by
Alleviate boredom
Promote a feeling of well-being
Provide an escape from pain and sorrow
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Sex and Love Addiction
Weiss (2007):
Love, sex and closeness bring anxiety and pain.
Emotions:
despair,
fear of being alone and rejected,
Longing for “special” relationship
Cycle of desperation and loss
Choice of partner becomes:
“Will they leave me or not?”
How can I get them to stay with me?”
How intense is our sex life?”
Unhealthy relationships= dependency, guilt and abuse.
Sex and love addicts use seduction, control, guilt and
manipulation.
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Attachment theory
Attachment theory
Normal vs. overwhelming “attachment hunger”
dependency bond broken:
Prematurely
Insensitively
Sadistically
Unhealthy attachment comes from:
Dependency bond broken prematurely
Growing up in a dysfunctional home
Feelings of inadequacy
Peer rejection
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Unhealthy Attachment
Trace back to painful events—”wallflower”
Few children can escape the after-effects of an unhealthy
interruption of the
Predisposes them to become love addicts
“living happily ever after”
Overwhelming “Attachment hunger”
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Love Addiction
Preoccupation:
Person: Glen Close in “Fatal Attraction”
Relationship:
Two Types:(1) Can easily let go of their partner
BUT can’t see themselves as being without
someone, and (2) Cling to their partner no matter
what, even if they don’t love them.
Romance: Addicted to the passion.
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