The media today publishes many articles about relationships. These are often presented in the form of advice columns or news articles and many authors usually include some sort of pseudo-psychology to support their claims. This may seem interesting from the readers' point of view, as it attempts to provide a scientific basis for the basis of the article; However, most of the time the "psychology" presented is either misinterpreted, based on poor research, or just plain wrong. In this article, I will use examples of relational psychology found in popular media and compare them to accepted psychological theory. Appendix I shows an article published by the Daily Mail talking about a new phenomenon called "love addiction" and uses quotes from "Pia Mellody". , Senior Clinical Advisor at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona” and “psychotherapist Maureen Courtney” to create an argument from authority. The article makes several claims; the first is that love addiction actually exists as a condition and it also contains a quote from Maureen Courtney suggesting that love addiction has its roots in the way attachments are formed during childhood. Research has been conducted to determine whether love is an addictive disorder and the results have been mixed. Reynaud and Karila et al. published a review article in 2010 which revealed that there is currently ineffective data to classify love addiction as a clinical disorder. However, in this study, they found that in some extreme cases, people suffering from love addiction would experience symptoms similar to those of a drug addiction (e.g., intoxication and withdrawal symptoms). A journal article written by Sussman in 2010 defines love addiction and describes possible treatments; this suggests that...... middle of paper ...... A., Luminet, O., Rim'E, B., Gross, JJ, De Timary, P. & Mikolajczak, M. (2013) . Oxytocin increases the willingness to share emotions socially. International Journal Of Psychology, 48 (4), pp. 676-681. Macbeth, L. (2014). Should gender be a deciding factor?. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/sex-blog/should-sex-be-a-dealbreaker-in-a-relationship [Accessed February 23, 2014]. Reynaud, M., Karila, L., Blecha, L. and Benyamina, A. (2010). Is romantic passion an addictive disorder?.The American Journal Of Drug And Alcohol Abuse, 36 (5), pp. 261--267. Sussman, S. (2010). Love addiction: definition, etiology, treatment. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 17 (1), pp. 31--45. Willoughby, B.J., Carroll, J.S., & Busby, D.M. (2014). Different relationship outcomes when sex occurs before, during, or after first dates. Journal of Sex Research, 51(1), pp.. 52--61.