FYI - thought some of you might be interested in this.... New!!! Love Addicts Anonymous 12 Step Meeting Love Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to recover from our unhealthy dependency on love as it plays out in our fantasies and relationships. We meet at 7 pm on Sunday evenings in Room 2 at The Unity Club, located at 116 W Broad Street in Falls Church, VA. Our format is a combination of reading, sharing, and 12 Step work. This is an open meeting and both men and women are invited to attend. Some common challenges, attitudes, and behaviors shared by Love Addicts (adapted from LAA): The inability to let go of someone they love even if their partner is unavailable, unable to commit or communicate, unloving, distant, abusive, controlling, selfish, or addicted to something outside of the relationship. Try to hold on to people they are addicted to by using codependent behavior such as enabling, rescuing, caretaking, passive-aggressive controlling, and accepting neglect or abuse. Remain in relationships with people they are no longer in love with even though the relationship negatively impacts their health and spiritual and emotional well-being. Fear of being alone. Try to control their partners through dominance, seduction, or withholding. Crave love, but fear intimacy. Create relationships based on fantasies and illusions rather than reality. Go to great pains to avoid looking at reality, justifying and rationalizing evidence that would indicate the relationship is not working or the partner is not a good relationship candidate. Fall in love with people who are unavailable (married, live far away, people they don’t know well, and other unavailable people). Destroy relationships when they start to get serious or intimate. Constantly have multiple romantic partners so as to avoid becoming intimate with one. If any of this resonates with you, we invite you to join us on a journey toward recovery. It works if you work it. Here are some of the promises of recovery (excerpted from LAA): I can be attracted to someone without falling in love overnight, and I can fall in love without obsessing. If love does overwhelm me I do not act out in addictive ways. I can tell the difference between fantasies and reality. If my basic needs are not being met, I can end my relationship.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:48:54 +0000
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