Women Who Love Too Much

Description

Robin Norwood examines why some women repeatedly become consumed by partners who are emotionally unavailable, addicted, or abusive, mistaking anxiety, rescue, and sacrifice for love. She connects these obsessive patterns to family backgrounds in which instability or unmet emotional needs made suffering feel familiar and control seem like care. Through case histories and a recovery framework influenced by addiction treatment, Norwood describes how attention can become fixed on changing another person while the woman’s own life contracts around the relationship. Her central prescription is not a better technique for winning affection but a shift toward self-recognition, boundaries, and help. Written in the language of its era, the book offers a direct self-help account of compulsive attachment and the family patterns that can sustain it.

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