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5 best TikTok videos about healing love addiction

I have selected five best videos on TikTok, including from psychologists, on the topic of love addiction aka why we keep crushing on people who don’t like us back. Enjoy! ❤️

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The allure of unrequited love, or why we fall for unavailable people #crush

To all love addicts out there…

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Love addiction – the ultimate post (inspired by @melissabroder)

My book on love addiction is now on Amazon, read for free with Kindle Unlimited or get it here. This article by Melissa Broder and her book ‘Pisces’ were the latest eureka moment in my understanding of love addiction. The dots connected, the … Continue reading

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Alain de Botton’s The Course of Love is the encyclopaedia of real love #happiness

I’ve recently been to the book launch event – Alain de Botton, one of my favourite opinion leaders, a modern philosopher with a melancholic outlook on life snippets of which he shares on his Twitter account, wrote a new book … Continue reading

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Fred Luskin on forgiveness – wanting ‘yes’ and getting ‘no’ #happiness

I’ve stepped up my efforts in completing the Science of Happiness course on edX. I am glad that the course is getting more interesting as it progresses and that it manages to provide both new insights into happiness and a solid … Continue reading

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Love crushes, obsessions, poetry… Love addiction and what pain-body has to do with it (Part 1)

Romantic love is an unachievable fantasy — Dalai Lama    Love. What a tricky, elusive, individual thing. We all know what it should or might be, we never really know if it is what we’ve got. When I was young, … Continue reading

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