Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change Paperback – April 8, 2008

I heard about this book through a friend of my mother, after knowing about my personal story she encouraged me to take the steps to heal. This book is perfect if you feel you are co-dependent on anybody. I highly encourage you take the first steps to your freedom and independence

This book offered an insight to the struggles I have experienced my entire life regarding relationships. I was unaware of the significance of my early years of life and how that lead me to be living this life as an adult. I picked this book up after a difficult breakup of a 3 year relationship in which I thought I was deeply in love. I’m a widow of 13 years and had not dated. This relationship wasn’t a healthy one.

This book is not a feel good, fuzzy and fun to read book... however it makes you look DEEP into your emotional wounds and traumas that keep you stuck in perpetual cycles of unhealthy relationships. I'm only through the first chapter and the tears are flowing. It's heavy and going to take me since time to process everything I've learnt and realized about myself and my patterns before I can open it back up to take on chapter 2. I'm hopeful but I'm also realizing that even through my therapy with my therapist and how much I thought I've healed my inner child, little girl me is still broken. I'm sad but hopeful... and ready to face the rest of my healing head on. I am certain this book is a solid road map.

This book saved me from any more disastrous marriages and in turn, my third husband saved all 3 of my sons’ futures. This is not an exaggeration!

Good part of some learning

This book was traumatizing and sent me into a 2-week depression. She is right when she says you might have to take breaks from the information. It is A LOT, but it showed me what I needed to see and put me on the right path to finding other books I needed to help me understand that I was not going crazy. In reading this book, I identify with much of what’s been written. A great deal applies to me, but I felt I needed tools to help me not be triggered by my partner. I needed to learn to identify what was going on. Due to being manipulated for so long, I didn’t know when or not I was being manipulated. I’m starting to feel better; it is a daily process, and although she says you need breaks. I feel I need to work on this daily to stay above water.

I really enjoyed this book, it's exactly what I needed to clarify my doubts and it gave me a different perspective on the matter.

Purchased after listening to audiobook on Spotify. This book is great.