The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Professional, reassuring advice for coping with the disorder - at work, at home, and in your family (Everything® Series)

by Cynthia Lechan Goodman

Narcissistic love addicts, as described by LAA, have many of the signs and symptoms of narcissism: They need to dominate and control their partners; they have the self-absorption and the grandiosity. Where narcissistic love addicts differ from the typical narcissist, however, and act on their addiction is when they feel that the object of their addiction is going to leave.