Women Who Love Too Much : When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships—updated and with a new introduction If your relationships are unhappy, unfulfilling, even ego destroying... If your yearning for love is frustrated by a partner who is more interested in work, substances, or other women than in you... If being in love means being in pain...then this book was written for you.Women Who Love Too Much distills Robin Norwood's entire career as a therapist specializing in the treatment of co-alcoholism and relationship addiction. Through their own words and stories, women who love too much reveal the roots of their attraction to difficult, troubled, distant men, and Norwood offers them—and you—a way out of the pain using a ten-point guide to recovery, happiness, and fulfillment. First published in 1985 and translated into dozens of languages, Women Who Love Too Much has changed the lives of millions of women around the world. Let it change yours too. The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships—updated and with a new introduction If your relationships are unhappy, unfulfilling, even ego destroying... If your yearning for love is frustrated by a partner who is more interested in work, substances, or other women than in you... If being in love means being in pain...then this book was written for you. Women Who Love Too Much distills Robin Norwood’s entire career as a therapist specializing in the treatment of co-alcoholism and relationship addiction. Through their own words and stories, women who love too much reveal the roots of their attraction to difficult, troubled, distant men, and Norwood offers them—and you—a way out of the pain using a ten-point guide to recovery, happiness, and fulfillment. First published in 1985 and translated into dozens of languages, Women Who Love Too Much has changed the lives of millions of women around the world. Let it change yours too. This is the world-renowned, inspiring, practical program for women who believe that being in love means being in pain. A multi-million-copy bestseller, Women Who Love Too Much presents a clear, comprehensive, 10-point recovery plan for women who are addicted to the wrong men for the wrong reasons. Among the vital lessons you will learn in this program are: * How the search for the love you never got from your parents can become a crushing obsession in adulthood. * How to change from loving someone so much it hurts, to loving yourself enough to stop the pain. * How to free yourself from destructive loving and build a healthy, meaningful relationship. This step-by-step self-awareness program offers help, understanding and, above all, hope—the pathway to making love the truly happy event it is supposed to be. Is having 'somebody to love' the most important thing in your life' Do you constantly believe that with 'the right man' you would no longer feel depressed or lonely' Are you bored with 'nice guys' who are open, honest, and dependable' If being in love means being in pain, this book was written for you. Therapist Robin Norwood describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts and behavior, which certain women develop as a response to problems from childhood. Many women find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships with men. They then struggle to make these doomed relationships work. This bestselling book takes a hard look at how powerfully addictive these unhealthy relationships are'but also gives a very specific program for recovery from the disease of loving too much Discusses "loving too much" as a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which certain women develop as a repose to various problems in their family backgrounds