Women Who Love Too Much

Robin Norwood, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specialized in co-alcoholism and relationship addiction, treats loving too much as a set of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that some women develop in response to problems in the families they grew up in. Women speak in their own words about why they are drawn to difficult, troubled and distant men, and about how the search for love missing in childhood can turn into an obsession. Norwood then sets out a ten-point recovery plan aimed at replacing painful attachment with healthier relationships. Published in 1985, the self-help book reached number one on the New York Times advice list in 1987, while some feminist scholars criticized its premise.

Sumo founder Noah Kagan included it in his list of 18 books that changed his life.