Find helpful resources for understanding and changing unhealthy attachment patterns, including a quiz, books, blog posts, support meetings, podcasts, specific podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks.
Table of Contents
Quiz
Books
Blog Posts
- Top 5 Tips On How To Recover From Love Addiction
- How to Stop Confusing Chemistry With Love?
- How to Stop Falling in Love Too Fast?
- The Psychology Behind Love Addiction
- How to Stop Going Back to Someone Who Keeps Hurting You?
- How to Stop Depending on Romantic Attention for Validation?
- How to Build Self-Worth Outside of a Relationship?
Love addicts anonymous meetings
Due to the physical and emotional dependence love addiction can cause, the love addict can use the same 12-step principles used by other addicts.
Love Addicts Anonymous International
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (S.L.A.A.)
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (S.L.A.A.) UK
S.L.A.A. Women’s Phone Meeting Group
Love Addiction Podcasts
- Journals of a Love Addict Podcast — Jodi White
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Therapist Jodi White discusses her own recovery alongside professional perspectives on love addiction, codependency, emotionally unavailable partners, dysfunctional relationship patterns, self-worth, and childhood experiences that can influence adult relationships.
Specific Love Addiction Podcast Episodes
- Limerence: The Psychology of Romantic Obsession With Brandy Wyant — Being Well
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Therapist Brandy Wyant and Forrest Hanson explain limerence, including intrusive romantic thoughts, uncertainty, compulsive behaviors, shame, attachment, self-worth, and the difference between obsession and ordinary attraction. They also discuss practical CBT- and ACT-based approaches. - Think It’s Love? 5 Signs It’s Obsession — Love Life With Matthew Hussey
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Explores why someone can become intensely focused on a person who does not return their feelings consistently. The episode discusses limerence, idealization, hope, uncertainty, and ways of seeing the relationship more realistically. - Codependence and Love Addiction With Jodi White, LPC — Gay Men’s Life Lab
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Jodi White explains how love addiction differs from codependency, how early family experiences can contribute to both, and why people may repeatedly become attached to partners who cannot meet their needs. - Are You Love Addicted? With Jodi White — hey, wait
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Looks at repeatedly choosing similar partners, losing yourself in relationships, seeking validation through romantic attention, and recognizing when intense attachment is keeping an unhealthy relationship pattern going. - Breaking the Cycle: Understanding and Overcoming Love Addiction and Toxic Relationships With Sherry Gaba — The Way You Show Up
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Psychotherapist Sherry Gaba discusses love addiction, codependency, toxic relationships, and the beliefs that can keep people returning to relationships that repeatedly hurt them. - Conversation With Pia Mellody — Conversation With Alanis Morissette
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Pia Mellody discusses codependency, addiction recovery, parenting, healthy relationships, and ideas from her work on love addiction and intimacy.
TED & TEDx Talks About Love Addiction and Unhealthy Attachment
- The Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Love — Katie Hood
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Katie Hood identifies five common signs of unhealthy relationships and contrasts intensity and control with healthier patterns based on respect, independence, kindness, and communication. - Emotional Dependency — Arun Mansukhani
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Clinical psychologist Arun Mansukhani explores emotional dependence and how relying too heavily on another person for stability or self-worth can affect romantic relationships. He also discusses what healthier interdependence can look like. - Breaking the Chain of Unhealthy Relationships — Dr. Janie Lacy
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Focuses on recognizing repeated unhealthy relationship patterns and changing the beliefs and choices that keep someone returning to similar dynamics.
