![]() There's a question of whether or not this falls under what you consider love, versus other kinds of appropriate or inappropriate behavior. There's the question of whether or not this falls under what you consider addiction. You don't even realize what you're doing.ĬHIDEYA: Kelly, is - you know, is that a hallmark for you of love addiction? I mean there's so many things that come to mind here. And there was a period of time, a 48-hour period, where I wrote 64 e-mails to a man I was involved with.īut I felt that I didn't have time to do my own writing. RESNICK: Well, one component of being a love addict, love junkie, seems to be a lot of obsessive and compulsive kinds of behavior. It's not really about the other person, it's also not really about you living your life.ĬHIDEYA: Give me an example of when you felt like your life was out of control, because of how you dealt with love. And it seems to me or nothing of not, an addicted culture.Īnd what it means, and what I experienced was that you realize you're using love, and you're getting high of it. I know Kelly's going to be able to explain this a bit more, but part of it is if you buy into the whole concept that there is such a thing as addiction.Īnd then there are two different types as far as I know, which is, you know, you have substance addiction, which is pretty obvious for shooting up in your arm, there's cocaine, meth, et cetera. RESNICK: Well, it's a really good question. ![]() You say love addict's latch onto partners and suck each other dry.ĬHIDEYA: As some people would say, that's just being needy or co-dependent, so, you know, how can you define a love addiction? Thank you.ĬHIDEYA: So, you wrote about life as a love addict in your memoir, Rachel. KELLY MCDANIEL (Author, "Ready to Heal"): Good to be here. RACHEL RESNICK (Author, "Love Junkie"): Great, so great to be here. Rachel Resnick wrote "Love Junkie", a memoir documenting her own struggle with love addiction.Īnd Kelly McDaniel is a counselor specializing in sex and love addiction. But we've got a couple of folks with us who can help explain. There's still a lot of skepticism surrounding whether or not people can be addicted to sex, or addicted to love. But it leads us to a serious issue, sex and love addiction. All right, I got to apologize for that flashback. Sex is natural, sex is fun, sex is best when it's one on one. In the 1980s, the hit group Wham said, and I am dating myself here. This is News and Notes, I'm Farai Chideya. McDaniel is a counselor specializing in sex and love addiction. Resnick wrote Love Junkie, a memoir documenting her own struggle with love addiction. But Farai Chideya gets insight from two authors who specialize in the topic: Rachel Resnick and Kelly McDaniel There's still a lot of skepticism surrounding whether or not people can be addicted to love. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS PORN SERIESAs our series on addiction continues, we focus on sex and love dependencies.
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