This groundbreaking book, with more than 150,000 copies sold, is back by popular demand. Updated with new data and examples, Is It Love or Is It Addiction? helps the reader distinguish between healthy love and destructive relationships. Brenda Schaeffer provides a seven-step plan for breaking free from dysfunctional, co-dependent patterns.
"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.
As the author reveals, we can begin to work through relationship difficulties with compassion and lasting effect by increasing our awareness of the ways that we express love.In this expanded third edition, Brenda Schaeffer draws on years of ...
"Destined to become a classic " Psychology Today proclaimed in 1975. Rereading Love and Addiction 35 years later, addiction researcher Rowdy Yates wrote that the book "still reads absolutely true as an understanding of addictive behavior.
Designed to be used with her new workbook for codependents, Breaking Free, this is a powerful tool for understanding the nature of codependence.
Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the ...
Severing a relationship is one of life's most painful experiences--and cutting those ties can feel like ending an addiction. Exaholics offers meaningful support to anyone trapped in the obsessive pain of a broken attachment.
Offers advice & a practical guide to making relationships work
After years of dealing with the addiction, April runs away to another state. When tragedy occurs, it brings the two back together. The book chronicles the ups and downs of the relationship and Jeanie's struggle to get clean.
This book is unique because it teaches the skills you need to identify and change the circular, illogical and obsessive thoughts that fuel your addiction.
What’s wrong with me? Why is love so hard? Psychologist and bestselling memoirist Kerry Cohen is all too familiar with the questions she often hears from her clients—and has asked herself.