This is Pillow Talk brought to you by Killer and A Sweet Thing.

I'm Eileen Kelly and I'm Jacob Safarian.

On this podcast we normalize sexual experiences by allowing the people who live them to speak for themselves.

On today's episode, we're joined by Grammy-nominated recording artist Vic Mensa.

In addition to solo works, he has collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z and

Koney West. Mensa recently completed treatment for love addiction. This episode was

recorded in Canal Street Market.

Welcome to Pillow Talk.

So what exactly is love addiction?

Love addiction.

I believe love addiction is like it's like needing someone else

needing other people in your life to feel voids that you feel personally and oftentimes you know it'll manifest itself

sexually or in love relationships I never had heard the word love addiction

before I ended up like in this program that's called

sex and love addicts anonymous I had heard about sex addiction but I had never heard

about love addiction.

Yeah and so when did you first realize you know maybe your relationships weren't the

healthiest or something was off?

I knew my relationships weren't healthy you know I feel like I've always been a person that would continue to do self-destructive shit not because I was like addict, you know,

not because I'm an addict, you know?

That has manifested itself in drug addiction, sex addiction,

sex addiction, love addiction, you know,

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