Love Addiction
The purpose of The Love Addiction Workbook is to provide helping professionals with cognitive and
behavioral assessments, tools, and exercises that can be utilized to treat the root psychological causes
of a love addiction. It is designed to help people identify and change negative, unhealthy thoughts and
behaviors that may have led to a love addiction. The activities contained in this workbook can help
participants identify their triggers that can lead to an addiction to love and teach them ways to overcome
and manage those triggers.
The Love Addiction Workbook will help participants to achieve the following:
- Understand recurring patterns that indicate a love addiction.
- Recognize that they are experiencing a love addiction problem.
- Reflect upon the behaviors that were part of and arose from the addiction.
- Build self-esteem and self-love so they are not so dependent on other people.
- Develop greater self-acceptance and the ability to change ineffective behaviors.
- Understand the triggers for preoccupation with finding the “perfect” person to make
their life whole.
- Learn ways to live a new life without the need to obsess about finding a romantic
partner to “fix” their life.
The Love Addiction Workbook is a practical tool for teachers, counselors, and helping professionals in
their work with people suffering from behavioral addictions. Depending on the person’s role using this
workbook and the specific needs of the groups or individuals, the modules can be used individually or as
part of an integrated curriculum. The facilitator may choose to administer one of the activities to a group
or administer some of the assessments over one or more days as a workshop.
This workbook contains five separate modules of activity-based handouts that will help participants
learn more about themselves and their love addiction. These modules serve as avenues for self-reflection
and group experiences revolving around topics of importance in the lives of the participants in the group.
The activities in this workbook are user-friendly and varied to provide a comprehensive way of
analyzing, strengthening, and developing characteristics, skills, and attitudes for overcoming an
addiction to love.
The activities and handouts in this workbook are reproducible. Minor revisions to suit client or
group needs are permitted, but the copyright statement must be retained.
Love Addiction Modules
Module 1: Self-Esteem
This module will help participants become aware of and explore how their self-esteem is
tied to their search for relationships to fill voids in their concept of self. Participants will
understand the positive and negative self-evaluations they make and provide exercises for
enhancing self-esteem.
Module 2: Fear of Being Alone
This module will help participants explore how their fear of being alone (autophobia) is
affecting their lives and relationships. Often people who are addicted to love get involved
in relationships because they are afraid of being alone. The activities in this module are
designed to help participants overcome this fear.
Module 3: Codependency
This module will help participants examine codependency as a learned behavior based on
an emotional and behavioral condition that affects an individual’s ability to have a healthy,
mutually satisfying relationship. They will examine this relationship addiction and how it
keeps them in relationships that are one-sided, emotionally destructive, or abusive.
Module 4: Love Addiction Costs
This module will help participants realize the ways they are preoccupied, to the point of
obsession with falling or being in love, and how they tend to behave in highly regrettable
ways. They will learn tools and techniques to break the love addiction cycle.
Module 5: Love Yourself
This module will help participants discover ways they are so busy trying to find the
perfect partner, or trying to stay in a relationship, that they do not take the time to accept
themselves. They learn that to overcome an addiction to love, they must learn to have self respect
by understanding and
PDF Worksheets - With the purchase of this workbook, you also get access to a PDF download of the included worksheets.
Love Addiction Card Deck
Using the Discussion Starter Card Deck will break the ice, encourage openness, and help introduce a specific subject. Activity handouts included in these workbooks are reflective, easy-to-use exercises, presented in a variety of formats to accommodate multiple intelligences and different learning styles. Each question corresponds to a page in the workbook.
