Hi there,I have finally realised that I am a love and relationship addict.  As i write i cannot believe that my life has actually come to this but the more I read, the more i recognise the signs and symptoms.  For 26 years I have been in and out of short, unsuccessful relationships and refuse to believe that the fault was all theirs, as my friends have so many times suggested.  Too much of a pattern has formed for it to be coincidential.  I have just recently come out of another unsuccessful relationship which turned nasty and whilst he also has 'needy' issues, he has blamed me and it is destroying me.  I have just joined another dating website in the hope that I will find someone to 'take my mind of things'.  What am I doing!!  I cannot stop thinking about this person and what has happened.  He is now with someone else and I cannot function through thinking about it, this is SO unhealthy.  I wondered, for so long why I felt euphoric upon meeting a new man and the relationship moving quicker than the speed of light, then feeling 'ill' and close to death (as I do now), when it inevitably all falls apart.  Tomorrow, I start some sessions with a Psychotherapist as I am now desperate to manage this, if I do not get some help soon, I know that i will take my own life, I cannot handle this any longer.  I feel so lonely, hurt, angry.  My life was once full but has now become very empty as a result of what I believe to be an addiction and co-dependency.  I cannot function or live without a man and it is SO very wrong.  I am sorry and I do not want to drag you as readers down with me but where the hell do i turn?  I would like to go to a meeting near to me but am unsure as 1) are any 'professional' individuals in attendance to help and 2) I am still coming to terms with accepting that I am an addict.  If anybody could shed any light on the above, I would be so grateful.  I wish all of you well.