Dating in Recovery: The Complexities of Relationships in RehabArticles, Love AddictionBy The RanchMarch 14, 2017Rehab is a time in which you are learning to cope with the ups and downs of life without turning to substances. It may also be a time in which any new relationships you form can have an impact on your recovery. If you are compelled to continually be in a relationship and are always…
Is Love Your Drug? Move Forward by Resolving Wounds of the PastArticles, From Our Experts>Tennessee, Love AddictionBy The RanchFebruary 7, 2017By Gina Marchando, DMFT, LMFT, CHT, CIT, Clinical Director at The Ranch Love and attachment are basic human needs. Like animals have packs, we instinctively gravitate toward other people. Loving others and wanting to be loved is natural and normal. But sometimes our concept of love becomes an unhealthy obsession that can lead us to…
4 Steps to Moving on After an Online AffairArticles, Love AddictionBy The RanchDecember 22, 2016Internet affairs can be easy to justify because they occur in the virtual world, but any time one partner keeps any kind of connection, whether physical or emotional, a secret from the other, the relationship is bound to suffer. Online infidelity occurs more and more these days. With access to social media, chat rooms and…
Are Love Addicts Really Looking for Love?Articles, Love AddictionBy The RanchJuly 25, 2016If you have an addictive, obsessive approach to relationships, you may be a love addict. You fall deeply in love repeatedly and often. No matter how many times you fall in love, you always have the thought that the newest person you are with is the only person for you. A new love interest gives…
