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Among the various addictions (drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling etc.) in recent years has leaned a new addiction affective. Emotional dependence (DA) has had a late entry in the category of relational disorder because it becomes difficult to discern what in a relationship can be pathological or rather normal.
First of all a categorical premise is to specify that the emotional dependency is part of what makes us human, just think of the experience of a newborn and how dependent on the mother figure. Even in later life who among us has never tried almost an obsession towards your partner?
The appearance of high dependence on partners, in fact, understandable in the courtship phase of falling in love, because aspire to love, almost fusion is partly physiological and useful to the birth of the bond, but these behaviors become dysfunctional if they persist in time. Just as it should be emphasized that true independence is neither possible nor desirable.
However, the emotional dependence, can take on the totalitarian forms to the point of harming themselves, and ongoing relationship may reach a form so extreme that it becomes pathological.
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