Loveaholism

[virtk0s]

Hello, my name is Chris, and I am a loveaholic.

Yes, I am recovering from my addiction to love. I have created a very difficult one step program: forget about how amazing my significant other was; using a single, blunt tool: time. To demonstrate, I present you with the following questionaire -- originally created for alcoholism, and hereby adapted to relate to love:

The questionnaire asks the following questions (where the word drinking was most likely replaced with love):

1. Have you ever felt you needed to cut down on your love?
Only every day.


2. Have people annoyed you by criticising your love?
Yes. Chances are, if I haven't asked you for help with my love life, I don't need it. I don't expect the majority of people to understand the kind of relationship I had, but if they did, I probably still wouldn't care. If you think I'm "strong-minded" on issues that require rationality, you don't wanna see me go at the emotional ones.


3. Have you ever felt guilty about love?
Yes. Well, only insofar as it has caused others pain.


4. Have you ever felt you needed love first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (eye-opener)?
Oh yea. ;)


5. Have you ever got in a fight due to love?
Yes. Oh so many -- in fact, the increasing frequency is what my significant others' attributes to our reasoning for separation.

So, Robert Palmer would probably sing a song about me, AA would probably kick me out for mocking their "12 step" programs, and I now have to resort to caffeine instead of more natural methods of waking up in the morning.

I face my addiction, day to day, with a clear understand of why I've got to kick the habit. In addition to the rationale, my other consolation is that my life goes on with great friends and great goals to accomplish. Though there is statistical evidence that things suck, it doesn't mean that life has to as well.