The article is interesting and a worthwhile field of study. My point is that exaggeration by saying that love IS drug addiction is not correct. The article says, "Lust, of course, involves a craving for sex. Jim Pfaus, a psychologist at Concordia University, in Montreal, says the aftermath of lustful sex is similar to the state induced by taking opiates."
And it says, "Some researchers suggest this mental state might share neurochemical characteristics with the manic phase of manic depression. Dr Fisher's work, however, suggests that the actual behavioural patterns of those in love — such as attempting to evoke reciprocal responses in one's loved one — resemble obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)."
In these examples the scientists use the words "similar to" and "resemble". These words are important. They are comparative words. While your H may have feelings similar to taking an opiate, he is not a drug addict. Love is a normal human feeling, people consider it to be a desired state of being. It is not abnormal and pathological, as drug addiction is.
That is my point. It is an exaggeration to say that your H is a drug addict and unable to take care of his children because he is in love. It is equally untrue to say that he has OCD because he is in love. Things are what they are, and that is bad enough. There is no need to demonize WAS's by calling them drug addicts.
