Sex Addict vs. Love Addict
For love addicts, love:
- Is all consuming and obsessive
- Is inhibited
- Avoids risk or change
- Lacks true intimacy
- Is manipulative, strikes deals
- Is dependent and parasitic
- Demands the loved one's devotion
Sexual addictions usually are revealed in stages:
- Preoccupation: continual fantasies about sexual prospects or situations, which can trigger episodes of sexual "acting-out"
- Ritualization: a preferred sexual activity or situation is often stereotyped and repetitive
- Compulsion: continual engagement in sexual activity despite negative consequences and desire to stop
- Despair: guilt or shame over inability to control behavior or feel remorse
- Other behavioral problems, particularly chemical dependency and eating disorders
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