Revelatory, groundbreaking [...] If only I'd read this sooner, I would have saved years of heartache [...] We still need this book' Liz Jones, Daily Mail

Un libro che non si limita a mostrare i sintomi di questa malattia, perché amare troppo non è altro che questo: una malattia psichica cronica degenerativa, da cui si può guarire se si riconoscono i sintomi. Cuando sucede algo emocionalmente doloroso y nos decimos que la culpa es nuestra, en realidad estamos diciendo que tenemos control sobre ello: si nosotros cambiamos, el dolor desaparecerá.” Robin Norwood's groundbreaking work will enable you to recognize the roots of your destructive patterns of relating and provide you with a step-by-step guide to a more rewarding way of living and loving. American lifestyles are way too busy for people to keep a healthy and positive mindset. If you’re going to take care of yourself, you need time to eat healthy food and make your own health a priority.

I have to be honest that in the span of 12 days of reading this book I have noticed a shift in my attitude -- I became irritable, more critical, maybe intolerant. That's definitely unpleasant, because the book reminded me so much of my sad adolescence.

This book teaches that love shouldn't be about suffering, no matter what overly-popular television programmes and movies would like to tell us, but should be about a mutual caring and respect, and one that doesn't leave us feeling forced to smother another in our attempts to "help" them, make them better. Obsessional thinking is viewed as a defense mechanism that the patient is unwittingly using to hide something else. In other words, “if I think about this all day then I need not think about something deeper and more troubling.” So, what was being hidden by the obsessional thoughts?

A sad fact because in my mind the subject at hand is even more current nowadays than it was some 30 years ago when the book was first published. I love you much too much, I've known it from the start, but yet my love is such, I can't control my heart" —Alma Cogann