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Women Who Love Too Much
If love feels like a full-time rescue mission, this one's for you. 💔➡️💛
Who it's for
This is one of the books that brought codependency language into everyday conversation, and many readers describe a jolt of recognition in its case stories: the pull toward someone who needs saving, the belief that loving harder will change them.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Marriage and family therapist Robin Norwood draws on her work with women in relationships with distant, unavailable or troubled partners, including partners with alcohol problems. Through case stories she traces how a need to fix, rescue and hold on can grow out of childhood experiences, and closes with a ten-point recovery programme.
Where to find it
In print, ebook and audiobook (narrated by Ellen Archer) from Penguin Random House and major booksellers; widely held in libraries.
Before you start
Heads up: Partners' alcohol and drug problems.
Age: Adult
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 197
