Bozean Dictionary........#2

Addiction: You know it is killing you (or some part of you) but you feel like you are going to die if you don't have it. Not by definition or effect confined or limited to drugs and alcohol.......it can involve almost any activity or indulgence; sex, food, people, religion, recreation....ad infinitum. Percieved of as a dire need, it is often confused with love. However, as a percieved need, it necessarily initiates a program of behavior designed to gain control or power over its' source.......which precludes love. Inherently dishonest, it may not be trusted, further precluding the possibility of love. It may be accompanied with or marked by lust, which is likewise confused with passion but is in fact only a form of greed. It can be presented in such a way as to appear quite normal and may create a temporary state resembling happiness. However, it destroys freedom and thereby precludes happiness.
See also.
True passion arises only from love.
Passion doesn't come at the expense of another's freedom or happiness.
Love doesn't cause pain.
Love gives back more than it takes away.
Love and passion don't exhaust and spend; they energize and recharge.
Love may be freely given a figurative or literal martyrdom or sacrifice.........love never requires a martyrdom or sacrifice.
Love and trust are so intricately intertwined as to be functionally synonymous one with the other.
Love and trust don't frighten; they inspire.

Thus endeth the entry............