Author Elizabeth Gilbert identifies as a "love addict" and a "blackout codependent."

"I get so swept up in somebody that I actually kind of lose my brains and wake up similar to the way that a black-out alcoholic would wake up months later and be like, 'Oh my god, what just happened to my life?' " Gilbert explains. "That's something that I've done numerous times with numerous people starting at a very young age."

Gilbert's 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, chronicled her year of post-divorce travel and self discovery, and was turned into a movie starring Julia Roberts. Her latest book, All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation, tells the story of Gilbert's relationship with Rayya Elias.

Gilbert first knew El

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