Our Addiction to Our Mate's
Love
taken with permission from the eBook
'How to Stop a Breakup and
Win Your Ex Back' by Tigress
Luv, the Breakup
Guru
For
some people keeping the object of their affection in their life can become
an obsessive, addictive need. This 'need' can become so deeply embedded in
the recesses of our mind that it creates a false sense of 'need'. In other
words, we actually believe we need the other person far more than we actually
do. But, what makes us create this false sense of 'neediness'? Even if the
relationship is an unhappy or abusive one, or based on toxic love and personal
neediness rather than as a loving enrichment to our lives?
What makes some
of us so desperate for this other person that we risk peace, serenity, and
our own personal happiness for them? What makes us rather be in a bad, or
toxic relationship, than happy alone, or in a secure, loving relationship?
What is this neediness that drives us to sacrifice all the good things that
might await us, for a life of clinging misery? Absence of Identity.
In other words, we feel we just don't exist outside the realm of another
person's perception, whether that person makes us miserable or not - even
if miserable, at least we are existing - at least we feel we are this or
that, instead of 'nothing'. With no identity how can we safely and
securely venture into the unknown and go through the fearful uncertainty
of change? How can we face our fears if we don't exist enough to face
them?
When we feel
we have no personal identity, when we feel we are nothing - unworthy - stupid
- drab - without them, then how on Earth can we possibly feel we can exist
without them?
Anytime we set another human being up to be our Higher
Power we are going to experience failure. We end up feeling victimized,
both by ourself and by the other person. There is no 'happily ever after'
if the goal is to find and attach to a mate at all cost. But - the truth
be known - we are not incomplete without a partner! We were not born one
half of a person, looking for another person to make us whole. True love
is not a painful need, or obsession. It is not in taking hostage, or being
held hostage. For when it becomes this it also becomes a situation where
we accept unhappiness, abuse, and inner emptiness. A situation where we
desperately hunger for the other partner even at the cost of manipulation,
dishonesty, power struggles, self-respect, dignity, and sometimes even our
lives.
Why do people feel that having a bad relationship is
better than having no relationship? Why do people in poor relationships,
when asked why they don't leave, say, "but I love him/her"? Because this
is how we were brought up. To believe that the goal in life - the only goal
- is to get a mate and live the fairy tale of happily ever-after. And - if
we don't make a success of this fairy tale - surely we must be failures.
For in the fairy tale the couple only wear a smile when they are riding off
into the sunset together. Oh, argh! So we believe this is the goal, the image
we must attain in order to be successful, happy, normal! We don't understand
that true love can exist if we are patient and have a healthy attitude towards
it. We desperately become attached - even addicted - to our mates, creating
a false sense of 'urgency' and 'need'. This is
false love.
In true love your
priority is to develop yourself first. You give each other room to grow,
and you support each other's goals. You have separate interests, different
friends, and meaningful relationships with friends and family members outside
of each other. You feel secure in your own value and worth without the other
person's validation. You trust your partner and are committed to each other
and to the relationship. You willingly and lovingly compromise and negotiate
any issues that may arise. You accept totally the other person, just as they
are, and you embrace their individuality. You do not take ownership of each
other's issues, nor look toward your partner to fix your issues. You show
support for your partner, yet you do not attempt to change, alter, or force
your opinions onto them. You enjoy their company, yet also are content with
being alone. True love relationships rarely end, but if they do you genuinely
wish your partner well and happy. Although you want the relationship to last
forever, you are healthy enough to understand that nothing last forever.
False love is
an unhealthy attachment to another person. You crave their love as an important
part of one of your own human survival needs. You become totally involved
in the other person, neglecting your own life, social circle, and interests.
You abandon all for the relationship. You lose you and become preoccupied
with the other's behavior. You panic at the thought of losing them in your
life. False love displays jealousy and possessiveness. Partners begin a power
play for control, one or both pointing blame or displaying passive-aggressive
manipulation of the other partner. You think, "if only I could get them to
change this or that, or behave this way or that way - then I would be happy."
You expect the other partner to fix your issues. If one partner has a bad
day, the other partner does too. You exchange your own identity with your
partner, reacting to your partner's problems and upsets as if they were your
own. You subconsciously look for constant approval and signs of love. You
may feel despair and hopelessness at the thought of losing your partner.
You may cling to the other partner, much as a drowning man clings to a lifesaver.
If the relationship were to end you would feel hopelessness, unworthiness,
unloved, bitter, angry, resentful, vindictive, revengeful, panicky, and even
suicidal.
taken with permission
from the eBook 'How to Stop
a Breakup and Win Your Ex Back' by
Tigress Luv, the
Breakup Guru
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