This is no longer a love story.

This is simply a person, me being someone in a situation ship who you cannot get off your mind, you cannot seem to let go of,

even though they are not giving you what you want. Someone who has gotten under your skin and into your

mind and you just can't seem to find the strength to cut them off and move on. I'm going to be giving you

seven steps that you can take to find the strength you need to actually go out and find the

love you deserve. So how do these situations play out?

We meet someone, they represent something exciting or familiar or something that feels so alluring.

And maybe we feel a lot of chemistry, we feel great in their presence. The sex is great. We feel

connected to them. We have great conversations with them. Maybe when we're with them, it even feels

like a relationship. But when we're not with them, it feels cold. It feels inconsistent. It feels like a hangover. It feels like we're

never really satisfied or fulfilled. We never feel safe. Maybe because they don't want the same

things we do. Maybe because their communication is really inconsistent. Maybe they want to

keep seeing other people, but they don't

want to let us go, so they keep reaching out to us anyway. Or we can't stop reaching out to them.

We can find ourselves becoming kind of obsessed with this person, obsessed with the possibility of

where it might go, of what it could be if this person was just willing to play full out in the way that you are.

We feel like this is hurting us and yet we can't part ways with it because it feels too good when it's good.

When we're in a situation like this, there are such highs and such lows, but the one thing

they have in common is that they become chronic.

We get locked into this cycle of not being able to let the person go.

And it's for this reason that situations like this should be viewed less through the lens

of romance and much more through the lens of addiction. How? When we feel addicted to a person

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