Many researchers use the concept of ‘love addiction’ as a shorthand for exploring maladaptive romances.Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian Elizabeth Gilbert was using people like drugs: a point she ...

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful magazine writer and author of short stories who would go on to even greater acclaim with the publication of “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything ...

Jeremy Fall has been on a healing journey for years, publicly talking about mental health and his struggles with anxiety and depression. Now, the 34-year-old chef and entrepreneur is getting candid ...

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 ...

Are some of us more likely to be manipulated than others? New research shows that the desire to be loved can make us tolerate even the worst kind of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of psychological ...

When Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck announced they were splitting up for a second time, the news made headlines around the world. After all, they were Hollywood A-listers who first fell in love at the ...

Pornography Doesn’t Have to Break Your Connections. For many men, engaging with pornography or browsing virtual spaces like Instagram creates emotional distance that can lead to emotional infidelity, ...

Joanna “JoJo” Levesque didn’t hold back in her new memoir, Over the Influence, candidly chronicling her life, career and relationships. “‘Oh my Godddd,’ she drawled in that Louisiana twag I had heard ...