Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587612399 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is the quintessential book for any love addict or counselor needing to fully understand this highly prevalent and complex disorder. This third edition includes a new introduction and revisions to the text throughout.Some symptoms of love addiction include love at first sight, excessive fantasizing, abnormal jealousy, nagging, and accepting dishonesty.Even relationships with parents, children, siblings, or friends may be addictive-dependency is not always related to romantic love.Previous editions have sold more than 40,000 copies."Love addiction is a three-headed serpent that Susan Peabody adeptly slays. Susan detects and dissects aspects of this condition not comprehended in other books of its kind. Peabody provides an in-depth and easy-to-follow recovery program for those suffering from this unhealthy and often dangerous addiction and explains how to create a loving, safe, and fulfilling relationship.A seminal work on unhealthy and obsessive behaviors in love, and how to change behavior to have a positive relationship. In ADDICTION TO LOVE, recovering love addict Susan Peabody explains the variety of ways this disorder plays out, from the obsessively doting love addict to the addict who can'¬?t disentangle
She lives in Berkeley, California. SUSAN PEABODY is an experienced speaker, workshop leader, and author. . She has helped thousands of people overcome love addiction
"THE ANSWER ALOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!" according to Toya. This book is a wonderful read for a person who has had a string of unsuccessful relationships and feels that the problem is everyone else! This is a book that will lead anyone to a greater level of maturity and understanding about love and how they love and how the way they love affects others. You really get an understanding of the pattern that is created by an emotional needy person and why they need and crave this love in an unhealthy way. For anyone who is dependant or codependent and may not even realize it, this is a great eye opener that helps you to look at your family history and how you perhaps were not re. Darn good! equis I did not expect it to be this good. Well written and enlightening. Great job!. Not helpful in practical ways I read the reviews before I bought this book; it looked promising. Have you ever had anyone tell you that "You need to learn to be patient" and wondered how to do that? What, exactly, is the practical application to "learning to be patient"?That's the problem with this book. If you're addicted to someone and you're reading this book, you already know everything in it. It talks about why you probably have issues with emotional dependency - stuff from your childhood. Then it has outlines like, "Abnormal Jealousy" where it describes symptoms of emotional dependency and then gives you advice like "Work on building up yo
""Love addiction is a three-headed serpent that Susan Peabody adeptly slays, this is the quintessential book for any love addict or counselor needing to fully understand this highly prevalent and complex disorder. Recovery is possible, this book makes it possible to take the second steps necessary toward a having and reciprocal long-term intimate relationship." . Susan detects and dissects aspects of this condition not comprehended in other books of its kind