Status Updates From Facing Love Addiction: Givi...

Kinda meh but I’m interested in what they about general addiction. “It functions in a persons life to remove intolerable reality through a series of obsessive-compulsive experiences”….

Got intrigued with the concept from the Truth book and fell down a rabbit hole that led to this book, so far I've been finding it mind blowing !

When you have effectively accomplished this detachment, the intensity subsides and the environment may get extremely quiet, especially in comparison to the way it was. When the intensity is gone, it may seem as if you have nothing left in the relationship, because intensity was practically all you had in the first place.

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In situations in which you have been engaged in your addictive process, you need to stop and be willing to go into withdrawal and stay there without returning to the addictive experience, until the withdrawal has passed. For example, you need to stop chasing somebody who doesn't want to be with you; stop having sex with inappropriate people; stop drinking; stop overeating; stop overworking.

If you are in denial that you are an addict, there is virtually nothing anybody can do to help you until you move into reality—the reality that you are an addict. This almost always means waiting until the pain is so severe that it cracks the shell of the denial.