Relationships
The following is from A Conscious Person's Guide to Relationships by Ken Keyes, Jr. (ISBN 0-915972-00-X), Chapter 8: 8 Involvement, Yes; Addiction, No. To get the most from your relationship, you'll find it helpful to distinguish between involvement with a person and addiction to being with the person. Let's define these two kky terms. Involvement means "l share my life with you." Addiction means "l create the experience that I am lost without you. I need you to be happy." Involvement means spending a lot of time together. Addiction means creating emotion-backed demands in my head that dictate what my partner should say and do -- it means "ownership." Involvement means that I choose to share a large part of my life with my beloved and build a mutual reality together. Addiction means that I feel insecu...