Love Addiction Recovery Checklist
By Nina Atwood
If you found yourself in the blogs on love addiction, take heart! It is possible to recover and find a much healthier path in life. Here’s a basic checklist for recovery:
- Get real and get serious about your life: acknowledge that you have a problem with relationships
- Do an inventory of past relationships and look for the common denominator: you
- List the dysfunctional behaviors that consumed you in the past: trying to fix someone else’s life; trying to change somone; loss of focus on your own well being
The path to recovery from love addiction begins with a commitment: To yourself - to be your own best friend, to treat yourself with kindness and respect, to expect nothing less from the people you are close to, and to be willing to end a relationship if it is unhealthy for you, no matter how strong the attraction. Once you make this commitment to yourself, seek any and all support that you can find. Join a counseling group, attend SLA (Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous) meetings, and read every book on love addiction* that you can get your hands on. Make self-care your first priority and never relinquish it.
*See Chapter Fourteen in “Be Your Own Dating Service: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Maintaining Healthy Relationships” for more information on love addiction, its origins and the path to recovery.
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