Anna checks her phone dozens of times a day, waiting for a message that never seems to come. A glance, a pause, or even a single word from the man she desires is enough to keep her awake at night, ...

Neuroscientist Tom Bellamy admitted to experiencing his dangerous attachment to a colleague when he'd been happily married ...

While the longest lasting, the artist was one of many people who took up a lot of real estate in McCracken’s mind. She would spend hours thinking about these people, idealizing them as perfect ...

I couldn’t get him out of my head. He was the reason I struggled out of bed in the morning, pulled mascara through my lashes, and kept a manic, perma-smile on my face at all times, just in case he ...

Poems and songs say love should be world-shattering. The logic of love addiction suggests that it shouldn’t. Credit...Illustrations by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sophie Haigney Recently an ...

Stories are powerful things! For millennia, human beings have been listening, learning, and sharing stories that help make sense of the world. Storytelling is foundational to our understanding of our ...

Sex and love addiction is not an official psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, it is a colloquial (slang or informal) term used to describe a compulsive preoccupation with romantic relationships that ...

Meeting someone new can be thrilling—so much so that you catch yourself daydreaming about the relationship before it’s even begun. You barely know them, yet you’re already fast-forwarding to your ...

Can you remember the last time you were obsessed with someone? Like, all-consuming, social-media-stalking, friends-pulling-you-aside-to-have-a-word, am-I-actually-going-crazy, obsessed? We’ve all been ...