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Women Who Love Too Much
- 302 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1985
- 27 editions
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1 About this book
Women Who Love Too Much, published in 1985, is a self-help book by the marriage and family therapist Robin Norwood. It describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts, feelings and behavior in which a woman is drawn again and again to partners who do not love her back, and pours herself into trying to change them. Norwood traces the pattern to problems in a woman's family background, compares it to addiction, and illustrates it with case histories. The last chapters set out a road to recovery, and appendixes explain how to start a support group and where to find help.
- Family relationships
- Mental health
- Psychology
- Women, mental health
- Alcoholics
- Group psychotherapy
- Love
- Relationship addiction
2 What to expect
A self-help classic from 1985 about women who keep choosing partners who cannot love them back and try to rescue them. A therapist explains the pattern through case histories, traces it to childhood in troubled families, and treats it as a kind of addiction with a step-by-step path to recovery. It is direct and compassionate, addressed to women in relationships with men, and some feminist scholars have criticized its premise that the women must help themselves.
Good for readers who want: understanding unhealthy relationship patterns, case histories, and classic self-help.
3 About Robin Norwood
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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