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Love addicts anonymous phone meetings6/25/2023 ![]() It is from Addiction to Love by Susan Peabody. spontaneous love can become unhappy, can reach the point of despair." This quote needs a footnote. a compulsive falling in love that came on and passed off by sudden fits' but it was Sandor Rado who in 1928 first popularized the term "love addict" – 'a person whose needs for more love, more succor, more support grow as rapidly as the frustrated people around her try to fill up what is, in effect, a terrible and unsatisfiable inner emptiness.' Even Søren Kierkegaard in Works of Love said "Spontaneous love makes a man free and in the next moment dependent . Freud's study of the Wolf Man highlighted 'his liability to compulsive attacks of falling physically in love . The modern history of the concept of the love addict – ignoring such precursors as Robert Burton's dictum that 'love extended is mere madness' – extends to the early decades of the 20th century. The History and Rise of Sex and Love Addiction (INFOGRAPHIC)
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