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What's Really Blocking Their Affection?

26 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (video: "What's Really Blocking Their Affection?", Feb 26, 2024) argues that love should be divided into two categories: feeling (affection) and action (behaving lovingly). She explains that people with active addiction can feel affection but the addiction often overrides those feelings and leads them to behave in ways that are not loving.

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I actually have a video called Can People with Addiction Really Love you? To understand, I think you have to divide love into two different categories. Most people see love as like a feeling of affection, but I try to think about love as an action. Right. Can someone behave in a loving way? Now, an addictive person can have love in their heart for you. They can feel affection for you and care about you. But most of the time, if they're in active addiction, that active addiction part of their brain overrules that feeling as far as their behavior is concerned. And so a lot of times that addiction will cause them to act in not loving ways towards you.