Toxic Love - the dysfunctional, addictive, cultural norm
Toxic Love - the dysfunctional, addictive, cultural norm
“True Love is not a painful obsession. It is not taking a hostage or being a hostage. It is not all-consuming, isolating, or constricting. Unfortunately the type of love most of us learned about as children is in fact an addiction, a form of toxic love.” *** “If we can start seeing relationships not as the goal but as opportunities for growth then we can start having more functional relationships. A relationship that ends is not a failure or a punishment - it is a lesson.” *** “As long as we believe that we have to have the other in our life to be happy, we are really just an addict trying to protect our supply - using another person as our drug of choice. That is not True Love - nor is it Loving.”
On this page is a column by codependency therapist/Spiritual teacher about the dysfunctional definitions of love, a toxic form of love, that we are taught in childhood.
Home Site Index Romantic Relationships and Valentine’s Day Romantic Relationships Pages Index
Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2015 by Robert Burney PO Box 98 Fallbrook CA 92088.
(The column “Toxic Love” by Robert Burney originally appeared in the Information Press of San Luis Obispo California.)
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Toxiclove.htm