Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love by Pia Mellody

Change the way you love, breakup with toxic relationships, end the shame spiral, and discover the key to secure, nurturing, and lasting connections—OVER 350,000 COPIES SOLD Are you stuck in the cycle of “failed” relationships and are constantly worried you are unlovable or will never find true love? Do you find yourself overly needy or unable to communicate your needs properly in your relationships…always anxious when you are apart from your partner? Has your relationship with your parents negatively impacted your romantic relationships? If so, you may be stuck in a cycle of love addiction. Facing Love Addiction offers a a way out. Through twelve-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, this book compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process to: · Clearly outline the debilitating toxic patterns played out by love addicts and the unresponsive love avoidants to whom they are painfully and repeatedly drawn · Clarify the distinctions between codependence and co-addiction · Show how our childhood experiences of abandonment or engulfment influence our choice of romantic partners Read more

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