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Obsessive love
Obsessive love or Obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person, with an inability to accept failure or rejection. Symptoms include an inability to tolerate any time spent without that person, obsessive fantasies surrounding the person, and spending inordinate amounts of time seeking out, making, or looking at images of that person. Although it is not categorized under any specific mental diagnosis by the DSM-5, it can often accompany other mental illnesses. Depending on the intensity of their attraction, obsessive lovers may feel entirely unable to restrain themselves from extreme behaviors such as acts of violence toward themselves or others. Obsessive love can have its roots in childhood trauma and may begin at first sight; it may persist indefinitely, sometimes requiring psychotherapy. In November 2019 marriage.com reported that although it could be “a slight exaggeration” Netflix show You had got people talking about obsessive love disorder.Author Liz Hodgkinson, herself a sufferer from Obsessive Love Disorder, in one instance lasting for fifty years and only being relieved by psychotherapy states "I believe that with obsessive love, time is no healer at all. The experience of obsessive love can be likened to dropping a stitch in knitting, and never picking it up. The knitting never quite looks right from then on, unless we unpick it and start again from the mistake."
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of obsessive love in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of obsessive love in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of obsessive love in a Sentence
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005:
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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