While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No music video represents the excess of the ’80s quite like Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.” The suave British singer began his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Maggie Chiang / For The Times) In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful magazine writer and author of short stories who would go ...

"What is love addiction?" This question makes me pause. I am a recovering love addict. Ten years ago, after five years of being clean and sober, a therapist diagnosed me with a condition that is not ...

The idea of finding love shouldn’t be more important than the love itself. Although love can be a beautiful thing, it’s not the only good thing in this life. Many who find themselves head over heels ...

My last two posts dealt with sex addiction and love addiction, respectively. Though I touched on codependence in the latter, this post will further delve into a “romantic” addiction to an individual, ...

Are some of us more likely to be manipulated than others? New research shows that the desire to be loved can make us tolerate even the worst kind of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of psychological ...

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful magazine writer and author of short stories who would go on to even greater acclaim with the publication of “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything ...