Food Addiction and Romantic Relationships

What if you use food and drinks when you feel upset about your romantic partnership?

Many people who are in relationships use food compulsively to deal with how they feel about how the relationship is going and how it feels for them.

We might overeat when we feel frustrated with our partner, or when we're worried about something in the relationship, or when we feel sad or lonely about something.

Maybe there isn't much closeness and intimacy, and so food becomes a personified replacement for that intimacy.

It is not possible to fully heal overeating while ignoring issues in your romantic partnership.

To heal food addiction, issues in your romantic partnership must be directly addressed.

Food addiction is related to more than one thing for everyone, and so you can make progress on the other areas and still have improvement in your behavior with food.

However, there will be a limitation on how far you can go if you're not addressing issues with the person you spend the most time with.

Any issues of love, truth, morality and ethics need to be brought up and addressed directly.

And, we need to feel all of our emotions about how things are now and how things have been in our relationship in the past.

We also need to emotionally link the issues in our current relationship with what set us up for those issues in our childhood.

I'm not a relationships expert by any means, so I can't tell you what you should do in your relationship, but I can tell you I've never known anyone to fully heal overeating and also ignore partnership issues.

The best resource I've found out there for how to improve relationships is the Divine Truth material. You can view their videos on partner relationships by clicking here. It is far superior to any other material I've come across on romantic relationships.

Here’s to improving our relationship with food and our relationship with our lover!

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