We all know love is so beautiful and lovely. But we should be aware of obsessive love, where one person is emotionally obsessed with the other because they believe only that person can make them feel happy and fulfilled. We sometimes don’t realize between these two. The key difference is whether your relationship gives you a positive feeling and you both are giving and taking.
Ms. Sara Staggs makes a conclusion derived from what John D. Moore, author of “Confusing Love with Obsession,” identified as four stages of obsessive love cycle at a site :
1. The attraction phase. He/she will just flirt as normal people would do, it’s hard to detect at this phase.
2. The anxious phase. He/she is starting to be afraid of losing you. It will grow deeper if you don’t end here.
3. The obsessive phase. Controlling and compulsive behavior start to turn up, where the other person would usually realize and want to get out.
4. The destructive phase. This is the depressing state when you leave the relationship.
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