Confusing Love With Obsession: When Being in Love Means Being in Control

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These instantaneous feelings cloud the person’s judgment, as he or she wants to establish an intimate relationship almost immediately, without accounting for the feelings of the love interest. Moreover, the author makes a point that recovery from obsessive love is a long and complicated process with no definite ending. Moreover, afflicted individuals often blame themselves for other reasons, rather than for being manipulative and controlling.

Have other men walked out on you because they couldn't handle your controlling, manipulative behaviors?

It is often followed by feelings of anxiousness and jealousy and may lead to one of the partners becoming possessive or manipulative. The purpose of this paper is to explore the main characters of this book, define the types of obsessive love proposed by the author and evaluate the knowledge this book can give to its readers. Confusing Love with Obsession is a must-read for anyone involved in a dangerously obsessive relationship.

Years ago, I found myself in a situation where I had developed an unhealthy attachment towards another. It occurs after the end of a relationship, and it is connected to an afflicted person feeling devastated and lost. More important, Confusing Love with Obsession helps readers develop a new self-awareness and healthy relationship--free from preoccupation with an object of obsession.In the book Confusing Love with Obsession, Moore (2010) introduces the Obsessive Love Wheel, a chart that displays various stages or types of obsessive love. All in all, a new perspective showing the lives of people overcome with obsessive feelings is an interesting and important way of looking at the problem of love addiction. I recently sat down with this super sexy doctor and consultant to the stars in an interview before he left California for a flight back to Chicago. Dá-nos exemplos concretos de pessoas que passam por isto e dos seus companheiros, ao mesmo tempo que nos explica a razão da dependência relacional em cada caso. being in love with that person, I would suggest that take a look at their relational history and look for patterns.

In this scenario, two people have mutually shared feelings towards one another, to a lesser or greater degree and are supportive of each other. The person being controlled gets sick and tired of all of the drama, ugliness and heartache and simply decides to leave. This book is certainly a worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in psychology or relational dependence as well as for any psychology student. As a Chicago therapist, his firm Guy Counseling provides consulting and training services to people and organizations on health and wellness, including some Hollywood celebrities.

And If you have had a man cheat on you in the past, the issue of trust becomes understandably compounded. I also related to the feelings of withdrawal listed when the person you are obsessed with is gone from your life. Fueled by an overwhelming fear of abandonment, people involved in obsessive relationships will go to extreme lengths to control their partner. These stages include the attraction phase, the anxious phase, the obsessive phase and finally, the destructive phase – which I illustrate in my book through the Obsessive Love Wheel. Women and men are driving eachother crazy by allowing this paranoid controling and dominating mindset to run there lifes while at the same time denying that they have done nothing wrong while the other person suffers and bends over backwords untill they get fed up and leave.