cover image Letters from Women Who Love Too Much: A Closer Look at Relationship Addiction and Recovery

Letters from Women Who Love Too Much: A Closer Look at Relationship Addiction and Recovery

Robin Norwood. Pocket Books, $18.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-66156-4

In this follow-up to her bestseller Women Who Love Too Much, the author presents selected letters from readers about their reactions to the book. Norwood, a Dallas therapist, responds to her correspondents with diagnoses of the maladies they describe. The new book, ""a closer look at relationship addiction and recovery,'' is divided into 10 sections involving women who are battered, in therapy, addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, as well as to dangerous men, etc. Although the letters are filled with pain, they also express hope for new beginnings, together with thanks from women who say they have learned that they are not alone in their suffering. The closing chapter is devoted to letters from men describing their own destructive relationships. 200,000 first printing. (January 18)