Book Extract | What happens when love is an addiction?

14 Aug 2022

Sara-Jayne Makwala King

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Mad Bad Love by Sara-Jayne Makwala King

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Sara-Jayne Makwala King recalls meeting the love of her life in rehab; she self-harming and depressed, and he a heroin addict.

There’s a type of love – the type I fell into with Enver – that doesn’t have the decency to announce itself. It happens upon you, almost violently, without the whiff of prospect or a shred of embarrassment. It is unapologetic and determined. It is live, sentient. It is love as an organism. It is addictive. It is love as addiction.

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