Relationship & Family Counseling

Both Love addiction and Codependency is also known as relationship addiction. Trying to get identity and self worth from a person. This could also include to a child or adult child, friendship, coworkers,sibling and not necessary only in romantic relationships.

A codependent relationship often begins with one person putting their partners needs about all else- including their own needs, interests, and independence.

By learning the signs and stages of a codependent relationship, you can identify if you might need to break a codependent pattern. The most important thing to know is that you can break the cycle of codependency

While striving to meet their partner’s needs with a sense of desperation, the partner who exhibits codependent behaviors often depends on their loved one to the extent that it can feel like a love addiction.

Codependency as a pattern of unhealthy relationships.  Codependents make another person their higher power, leading to power struggles, resentment, addictions, and/or difficulties with intimacy. Individuals who struggle with codependency have difficulty loving themselves, using adequate self-protection, understanding their identity, practicing self-care and moderating themselves. 

Codependency is certainly an element of love addiction, but not all people who are codependent are love addicts.  For the love addict, the markers of codependency that are most notable are low self-esteem and poor self-care habits. 

This therapy focuses on recovering from emotional immaturity due to relational trauma.