Songfacts®:

• In this song, a man takes his wife/girlfriend for granted until she can't take it anymore and walks out. Now he's unable to cope with her rejection. Huey Lewis & the News had a hit the previous year with another song comparing a woman to an addiction: "I Want A New Drug."
• Chicago wrote most of their own songs, but they used outside writers on this one: Steve Kipner and Jon Parker. Kipner also wrote "Physical" and "Genie in a Bottle." Parker has written many songs as well as music for TV shows, including the game show Family Feud.
• This song makes great use of two very different voices in the band: Peter Cetera sings most of the verses, while Bill Champlin comes in for the chorus ("I'm addicted to you baby!").
• David Foster produced this and the rest of the tracks on the Chicago 17 album. Foster had a longstanding relationship with Peter Cetera; when Cetera went solo, Foster continued to work with him, co-writing Cetera's hit "Glory Of Love."
  
  The Foster sound was hot, but it muted the band's famous horn section, which was a point of contention in the band and a disappointment to their longtime fans who were looking for an uptempo, brassy sound and not keyboard-driven ballads.
• Chicago were never MTV stars, but they did have a presence on the network. The video for this song was directed by Leslie Libman, who also did their clip for "You're the Inspiration."