Letters from Women Who Love Too Much

The internationally bestselling author Robin Norwood responds to letters from women who need advice and help in their recovery from addiction - whether drugs, alcohol or dangerous men

Robin Norwood is the internationally bestselling author of Women Who Love Too Much, Letters from Women Who Love Too Much, Daily Meditations for Women Who Love Too Much and Why Me, Why This, Why Now? She was formerly in private practice as a licensed marriage, family and child therapist, specialising in chemical dependency and co-dependency. She now lives in California, USA.

The internationally bestselling author Robin Norwood responds to letters from women who need advice and help in their recovery from addiction - whether drugs, alcohol or dangerous men 
 
In her bestselling self-help book, Women Who Love Too Much, Robin Norwood revolutionised the way we look at love, with a compassionate, intimate book offering a detailed psychological recovery programme for women who love too much – women who are attracted to the wrong men, who neglect their own interests and friends and who are unable to leave tormented relationships for fear of being 'empty without him'. It is a book that speaks to nearly every woman who has ever loved and lost. 
 
In this follow-up to her bestselling book, Robin Norwood presents selected letters from readers about their reactions to the book. 
 
Norwood, a Dallas therapist, responds to her correspondents with diagnoses of the maladies they describe. The book, "a closer look at relationship addiction and recovery," is divided into 10 sections involving women who are battered, in therapy, addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, as well as to dangerous men. 
 
Although the letters are filled with pain, they also express hope for new beginnings, together with thanks from women who say they have learned that they are not alone in their suffering. The closing chapter is devoted to letters from men describing their own destructive relationships.

Daily Meditations For Women Who Love Too Much

The in-depth practical companion to the hugely popular bestselling self-help book, Women Who Love Too Much. These meditation exercises will help readers feel happier within themselves, and will pave the way towards happy, successful relationships.

The in-depth practical companion to the hugely popular bestselling self-help book, Women Who Love Too Much. These meditation exercises will help readers feel happier within themselves, and will pave the way towards happy, successful relationships. 
 
In her bestselling self-help book, Women Who Love Too Much, Robin Norwood revolutionised the way we look at love, with a compassionate, intimate book offering a detailed psychological recovery programme for women who love too much – women who are attracted to the wrong men, who neglect their own interests and friends and who are unable to leave tormented relationships for fear of being 'empty without him'. It is a book that speaks to nearly every woman who has ever loved and lost. 
 
With multiple millions in sales throughout the world, Women Who Love Too Much remains an invaluable guide to a successful relationship and is an eagerly sought source of help to women and men everywhere. Norwood now enhances the practical wisdom of that book with years' worth of deep reflection and study. The result is a practical guide to relationships, containing a series of daily meditations that promote sane loving and serene living no matter what is – or isn't – happening in your personal life. Each page of Daily Meditations stimulates awareness, offers guidance and enables self-development. Whether you breeze through this charming book in one sitting or savour each meditation a day at a time, the pages of Daily Meditations of Women Who Love Too Much offer fresh inspiration and insights with every reading. It is the ultimate how-to book for anyone in need of relationship help.

A Guide to Answering Life's Toughest Questions

Why Me, Why This, Why Now?

Two new editions of Robin Norwood's classic international bestsellers

Robin Norwood is a licensed marriage, family and child therapist in private practice. She specialises in treating unhealthy patterns of relating in love relationships, as well as addiction, co-addiction, compulsive eating, and depression. She lives with her husband in Santa Barbara, California.

Robin Norwood's international bestseller Women Who Love Too Much changed forever the way we think about love. 
 
Now, in Why Me, Why This, Why Now?, she takes her readers - women and men - on a deeper journey into the realm of the Spirit, and offers a revolutionary perspective on adversity that addresses our deepest and most disturbing questions, like 'Why is this happening to me?' or 'What is the point of pain?' or 'What is my body trying to tell me?' 
 
By teaching us to recognise the soul's purpose behind our encounters with adversity, Robin Norwood empowers us to co-operate with our own destiny, live a far more effective life and heal even the deepest wounds of the heart.

Robin Norwood

'Revelatory, groundbreaking [...] If only I'd read this sooner, I would have saved years of heartache [...] We still need this book'

Really brilliant. It explained why women seek completion by obsessing over men. I absolutely related to it.

THE INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER HELPING MILLIONS OF WOMEN FIND HEALTHIER RELATIONSHIPS 
 
'A life-changing book' ERICA JONG 
 
'Really brilliant. I absolutely related to it.' MARIAN KEYES 
 
'Revelatory, groundbreaking' DAILY MAIL 
 
Is your relationship the most important thing in your life? Are you constantly thinking and talking about your partner, or finding excuses for their bad behaviour? 
 
If you have ever found yourself obsessing over an undeserving partner, this book was written for you. Many women are repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships, and then struggle to make these doomed relationships work. In this bestselling psychology book, leading relationship and marriage therapist Robin Norwood reveals why we get into unhealthy relationships and how powerfully addictive they are - and shares her effective framework for finding and sustaining love. 
 
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. 
 
Updated edition with a new introduction 
 
What readers are saying: 
'A must read for everyone, women and men alike' 
'One of the best self-help books I have read' 
'A life changing book - brutally honest and straightforward - yet full of love and compassion' 
'Such an insightful read' 
'Brilliant, life-changing'

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'Revelatory, groundbreaking [...] If only I'd read this sooner, I would have saved years of heartache [...] We still need this book'

Really brilliant. It explained why women seek completion by obsessing over men. I absolutely related to it.

A life-changing book for women

'Revelatory, groundbreaking [...] If only I'd read this sooner, I would have saved years of heartache [...] We still need this book'

Really brilliant. It explained why women seek completion by obsessing over men. I absolutely related to it.

A life-changing book for women

'Revelatory, groundbreaking [...] If only I'd read this sooner, I would have saved years of heartache [...] We still need this book'

Really brilliant. It explained why women seek completion by obsessing over men. I absolutely related to it.

A life-changing book for women

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