naxez.blogg.se - Sex and love addicts anonymous literature

We stay enslaved to emotional dependency, romantic intrigue, or compulsive sexual activities.We avoid responsibility for ourselves by attaching ourselves to people who are emotionally unavailable.We become immobilised or seriously distracted by romantic or sexual obsessions or fantasies.

We use sex and emotional involvement to manipulate and control others.

We use sex or emotional dependence as substitutes for nurturing, care, and support.

We sexualise stress, guilt, loneliness, anger, shame, fear and envy.

Even though we fear intimacy and commitment, we continually search for relationships and sexual contacts.

We feel empty and incomplete when we are alone.

We confuse love with neediness, physical and sexual attraction, pity and/or the need to rescue or be rescued.

Fearing emotional and/or sexual deprivation, we compulsively pursue and involve ourselves in one relationship after another, sometimes having more than one sexual or emotional liaison at a time.Fearing abandonment and loneliness, we stay in and return to painful, destructive relationships, concealing our dependency needs from ourselves and others, growing more isolated and alienated from friends and loved ones, ourselves, and God.Having few healthy boundaries, we become sexually involved with and/or emotionally attached to people without knowing them.