The same irresistible impulse, tension, compulsion and then depression following the yielding to the impulse'. In A Spy in the House of Love, the heroine Sabina is said to have seen her 'love anxieties as resembling those of a drug addict, of alcoholics, of gamblers.Since, variations on the dynamics of love addiction have become further popularized in the 1990s and 2000s by multiple authors.
In 2004 a program just for love addicts was created-Love Addicts Anonymous. In 1985, Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much popularized the concept of love addiction for women. As of late 2012, S.L.A.A.'s membership had grown to an estimated 16,000 members in 43 countries. They published their Basic Text, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, in 1986 discussing characteristics of and recovery from both love addiction and sex addiction. In 1976, the 12-Step program Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (S.L.A.A.) started hosting weekly meetings based on Alcoholics Anonymous. all of this social dimension has been removed, and the attention to love addiction has been channeled in the direction of regarding it as an individual, treatable psychopathology'. Stanton Peele opened the door, almost unwittingly, with his 1975 book Love and Addiction but (as he later explained), while that work had been intended as 'a social commentary on how our society defines and patterns intimate relationships . However, it was not until the 1970s and 1980s that the concept came to the popular fore. 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.
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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.