She's not a Stage 5 Clinger, she's just an Love Addict...

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“Immediately, I started reconfiguring my life around him. I had to get a bigger bed — he was 6 foot 2 — and a slew of new dresses and Botox. I’d needed to book hair and nail appointments. Get a bottle of Shalimar. And shimmery body butter. A lingerie overhaul was essential. The kitchen required a new coat of paint, and I had to call the landscaping guy. Then order new silk sheets and fluffy towels. I was manic, wired, not sleeping for days. The frenetic high of a cocaine-like craving

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But Hauer wasn’t just hoping that some day she’d meet Prince Charming and build a healthy, long-lasting relationship — she was completely consumed with the idea. And even when she was dating someone, she didn’t feel content. In fact, her obsessions only intensified. “I became extremely needy, weak, and dependent in relationships,” she explains. “I constantly longed for attention — and everything that I represented on the outside became a shell of nothing on the inside.”

Sometimes, she’d picture a life with someone before the second date. In her new book, Insatiable: A Memoir of Love Addiction, she writes of one such incident: “Immediately, I started reconfiguring my life around him. I had to get a bigger bed — he was 6 foot 2 — and a slew of new dresses and Botox. I’d needed to book hair and nail appointments. Get a bottle of Shalimar. And shimmery body butter. A lingerie overhaul was essential. The kitchen required a new coat of paint, and I had to call the landscaping guy. Then order new silk sheets and fluffy towels. I was manic, wired, not sleeping for days. The frenetic high of a cocaine-like craving.”

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