“It has all of the characteristics of addiction. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person. And it's got the three main characteristics of addiction: tolerance, you need to see them more,…”Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.”Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've…”Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Rejection