Are You In Love, Or Are You Emotionally Dependent?

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you’.” ~Erich Fromm

How often have you thought you were truly in love, only to lose those in-love feelings after a few months? Have you believed you were in love but discovered that you were ‘in need’ instead?

Emotional Dependency

• Are you making up the person you think you are in love with?
• Have you discovered from past relationships that you have a tendency to idealize people?
• Do you project onto them how you want them to be, rather than how they are?
• Are you primarily focused on how your partner treats you, rather than who he or she really is inside?
• Are you overly impressed by how this person makes you feel…