About LAA

This is the original message board of Love Addicts Anonymous founded by Susan P. and Howard G. in 2004. Some of our members have moved on, but this message board still contains seventeen years of information about love addiction and recovery. You are welcome to post anywhere you like. You do not have to log in and register to post, but you must do so to access the pdf files. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is how the board was set up by our host ProBoards.

LAA stands for Love Addicts Anonymous. We honor the 12-Steps and 12-Tradtions. We started LAA to create a program just for love addicts apart from SLAA. We began with one meeting on September 12, 2004, at a retirement home called Piedmont Gardens. Twelve people attended, both men and women.

We soon grew into other meetings here in the U.S. and overseas, but we did not become really widespread until Zoom came along. Today we have meetings all over the world.

We have always stood on our own two feet rather than copy other programs and continue to do this today. We have written our own literature, just for love addicts, and have ushered in the era of using outside literature to educate our members to the solution which we call recovery. At every meeting we have at least ten minutes devoted to recovery literature so that everyone is always learning about how to overcome this painful disorder.

Currently, LAA is run by the International Business Meeting which meets once a month. We are in transition -- one day at a time.

Love Addicts Anonymous was started to provide a safe place where love addicts could come together and recover from love addiction. In LAA we will share our experience, strength and hope with each other. As a group, we will support each other unconditionally. We will also read literature, share ideas, process information and work the 12-steps of LAA as adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous. Please be assured that no particular ideology will be forced upon you. You can take what you need and leave the rest. If you are a love addict, or think you might be, join us on our journey toward putting love into perspective and establishing healthy relationships with ourselves and others. Let us do together what we cannot do alone.