Sex Addiction Vs Love Addiction

Introduction A relationship is a communion between individuals who share experiences, interests, emotions, and passion. Relationships begin with butterflies, small gestures of interest in one another and may continue to healthy romantic love. Healthy romantic love contains biological roots related to neurotransmission, evolutionary basis focused on procreation, cognitive and social learning aspects including attachment development and cultural features which often portray many depictions of romance and family creation. Specific to romantic love neurotransmission focused on maintaining a partner despite obstacles, ultimately leading to greater survival of the partner and family unity. The term love passion describes a universal and necessary …show more content…
Sex and love addiction is one out of eighteen titles that describes an addiction where love passion, or sexualized behaviors become more excessive and compulsive through. Sex and love addiction comprises love passion, love addiction, and sex addiction. Each of these concepts differs from one another in forms of excessive behaviors, meanings and patterns faced (Fisher, & Harrison, 2013). For this research paper, love passion and sex addiction information supports the understanding of the phenomena known as love addiction. Love passion expanded from to create a base from which love addiction progresses. Sex addiction defined to contrast the strong differences it holds from love addiction. There has been debate among different professions whether love at an excess level paired with compulsions is an addiction or personal choice flaw. Gaining knowledge about love addiction, living with the addiction, impacts and affects, and treatment options is the goal of this research. Does love addiction exist, researched, understood, recognized, treatable, and affect child welfare is the problems …show more content…
Much of the empirical evidence or research completed that is available surround the concept of sex addiction. Therefore, the often message received while seeking a formulation in which love addiction manifests “is (that researchers are) not aware… (of) published diagnostic criteria, nor is “love addiction” a recognized category in any official diagnostic nomenclature” (Reynaud, Karilia, Blecha, & Benyamina, 2010, p.262). It is a possibility that the maintenance of low levels of serotonin sustained while enduring love relationships may reflect development of love addiction. In this case, the partner in whom the addict loves is like a drug for them. The passion tends to become destructive passion when initial contacts between the partners have been particularly intense and rich with pleasure, often-sexual pleasure (Reynaud, Karilia, Blecha, & Benyamina, 2010). As there is no concrete understanding of love addiction, neurobiological factors may not be the only source in which it stems. Developmental experiences such as formation of social attachments in childhood may have a profound impact on whether an individual will face love addiction later in life. According to a study, that Sussman (2010)