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Love Addiction Dynamic

A relationship dynamic where one partner is consumed by obsessive, often self-destructive craving for the other, treating the bond itself like a compulsion they cannot break even when it hurts them. Common in dark romance and angst-heavy fiction, the addicted partner craves the love object the way an addict craves a substance.