Understanding Women's Love Addiction

This presentation examines the development of the love addiction and sex addiction concepts, highlighting key perspectives from researchers and clinicians who have contributed to understanding these behaviors. It explores how love addiction may involve compulsive attachment, fantasy, relationship patterns, emotional dependency, and attempts to meet unmet needs for connection, belonging, and validation. The webinar discusses how childhood trauma, neglect, abuse, loss, shame, and negative beliefs about relationships and sexuality can contribute to unhealthy attachment patterns and difficulties with intimacy.