Category Archives: Love Addiction

People become addicted to a family member’s addictions. Some think a codependency is where two people become interdependent, but a codependency is where family members may become accustomed to living with someone who may be an alcoholic, a drug addict, a violent person, a gambler, and so on. The rest of the family may become “caretakers” covering up for the problem person, and there may be a love-hate relationship with the addiction. Sometimes when the person begins to get free from the evil behavior, the rest of the family may unknowingly pull them back into the addictive behavior to protect their own addiction to chaos. Furthermore, often people marry others with the same problems in hopes of continuing a lifestyle in their comfort zone, or perhaps to get over their grief for having failed in an earlier relationship. For example, some people will have a series of divorces from abusers or drunks.