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Re:Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction S... by pavel_lishin on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:33AM (#17118649)
I don't think it needs to be that sinister; people tend to form relationships with those they feel emotionally close to, and there's probably a pretty rapid onset of intimacy in support groups like that.

I'm not saying there aren't predators, mind you, I just don't think that every relationship there stems from one person trying to take advantage of another.

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Re:Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction S... by ggg9990 on Monday May 21, 2018 @01:10PM (#17119935)
Also... there is a severely reduced dating pool for someone actively in the middle of addiction recovery. If I had met a girl when I was single who said “I’m a recovering X addict with 32 days sober” I most likely would have not been very romantically interested. And if I was, it would be hard to connect with something when I have no experience of something so dominant in her life.
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