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“Love Junkie”: A Memoir of a Dangerous Addiction to Sex and Love
Posted under Sexual Addiction on Friday, October 9th, 2009
When her latest ex-boyfriend broke into her apartment and urinated on her computer, Rachel Resnick called a friend to vent. “What a psycho,” the friend said. In her memoir, Resnick writes, “Her words comfort me, but there’s a dull, nagging thought—who’s the psycho? I picked him, I kept him. I kept him after he began debasing my, just as I kept a lifetime of other men who seduced and then debased. So if he’s psycho, aren’t I psycho too?”
The New York Post’s Martha Frankel writes that in 2008’s "Love Junkie," Resnick chronicles her compulsive love affairs and sexual adventures with men who abused and demeaned her at every turn.
When Resnick found herself 40 years old, broke, and childless, she decided to try to finally get to the root of the problem. She discovered that her mother was the original love junkie, leaving her kids alone at home when she went to bars, and bringing home one man after another.
Resnick recalls that when her mother took her along to a bar one afternoon, Resnick became restless and reminded her mother that they’d been there since school let out and that it was nearly six o’clock. “’I’m talking to someone right now,’ she hisses, her pale blue eyes narrowing. When she gets this drunk, her eyes turn into cold blue ice floes," Resnick writes.
Resnick’s father left Rachel and her mother and married a religious woman who eventually refused to let Resnick into her home, accusing her husband and his daughter of incest. "Batsheva was wrong," Resnick writes. "There was no incest. But there was a lot of confusion. Blurred boundaries. Acknowledgment of my sexuality, then rejection. Have an apple dipped in honey; you’re a filthy little girl."
Now Resnick’s memoir is being turned into a performance piece. On October 11th, members of the Antaeus Theatre Company, under the direction of Arye Gross, will present “Love Junkie, A Performance Piece” at Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica, California. The evening will feature a dramatic re-telling of scenes from the book, followed by a Q and A with Resnick.
The paperback edition of her book debuted October 5th. Love Junkie has won praise from Vanity Fair, The NY Post, Cosmopolitan, The NY Observer, and The Guardian.
"Reading’ Love Junkie’ is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest," wrote Janet Fitch, author of "White Oleander."
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Prozac Nation, "wrote of "Love Junkie": "A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now…great fun to read and finally fully redemptive."
