Love is easily confused with emotional dependency because they both usually come with intense feelings around another person.
Signs of emotional dependency:
Love versus emotional dependency.
“Love” that comes from fear isn’t loveit’s neediness.
Love is about giving and sharingnot about getting.
Love is not needy.
There is nothing controlling about real love.
When you love someone, you deeply value their essential qualitiesthe qualities that don’t go away with time.
The challenge of real love is that you cannot desire toget loveand tobe lovingat the same time.
When you consistently choose to be loving with yourself and others, you will experience real love.
How to stop being emotionally dependent.
When you don’t see and value yourself, you become emotionally dependent in your desire to get love.
But it’s well worth the effort.
