Facing Love Addiction : Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love
Author: Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller
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ISBN: 0062506048
Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco (03 July, 1992)
Sales Rank: 5,189
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Consice, understandable, eye-opening, step-by-step guide.
I have been reading self help books for 15 years and this is one of the best! I wish I had found it much sooner! It is written in an easy-to-read format, concise, to-the-point, and includes writing exercises to help the reader make sense of what went wrong in their "failed" relationships, learn how to become more self-assured, and attract mentally healthy people into their lives. I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever had a painful love relationship.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This Book Completely Changed My Life
I read this book about four or five years ago, and it helped me understand, in a way that nothing had before, why my relationships were not working. I have read several books on building healthy relationships, and many are good, but this is the one that saved my life. Pia's model explains that while I was searching for love, I was really much more afraid to receive it than I had ever thought. Before I read it, I hadn't been able to sustain any relationship for long, and had never been close to marriage. Now I am happily married, and I still turn to this book for tune-ups in my marriage. Thank you Pia, very much!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very nice work!
I think this book provides us with some very nice explanations of how and why we develop certain types of interpersonal tendencies. It clearly explains how we become love addicts or avoidance addicts and how these we develop codependent relationships. It is very insightful and inspiring since most of us have a love addict and avoidance addict in us to varying extents. Although this is true in most psychotherapy literature, I believe that codependence should be conceptualized more broadly because it occurrs in various levels and it manifests itself in a much wider variety of ways (not just between love and avoidance addicts). An excellent book that gives us a more comprehensive explanation of this is "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is a fabulous book on relationships and personal development that I can't say enough about. Similar Products
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