When a relationship ends, Love Addicts can spend a lot of energy trying to put it back together. In this episode, Jodi discusses how playing the 'sexy/cool girlfriend' never actually worked, and how hopeful hookups during on-again/off-again relationships kept her stuck in co-addicted cycles with partners.

Jodi also talks with Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, Dr. Stevie Stanford, regarding the differences - and similarities - between sex and love addiction, and why we're constantly trying to fill a void.

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Lots of people have a Thing - something that needs to addressed in order to be the healthiest version of oneself; but sometimes that Thing is intertwined with another, much bigger Thing...

In this episode, Jodi talks about her experience with alcohol and how it was intertwined with her love addiction (aka The Big Thing) from a young age. And Jodi's friend, Sondra Primeaux (of The Unruffled Podcast), shares her history with Things (codependence and alcohol), and how honesty, boundaries and recovery have changed everything.

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What is love addiction? According to Kelly McDaniel, therapist and author of "Ready to Heal: Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships", the answer is quite complex. In this episode, Kelly joins Jodi to discuss the cultural programming that leads to love addiction; how sex and love get intertwined (and confused) at an early age; and how we can recover. Get a notebook and pen because this episode covers a lot of ground.

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Breakups are hard, but sometimes staying in the relationship is even harder. In this episode, my friend Brooke shares her experience with codependence and how it affected a recent longterm relationship (plus how and why that relationship ultimately ended).

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Who is Jodi White and why is she always talking about love addiction? I promise to answer these questions in this first episode of Journals of a Love Addict (and in case you're wondering 'WTF is love addiction?', I'll answer that that one, too).