Includes index

Loving the man who doesn't love back -- Good sex in bad relationships -- If I suffer for you, will you love me? -- The need to be needed -- Shall we dance? -- Men who choose women who love too much -- Beauty and the Beast -- When one addiction feeds another -- Dying for love -- The road to recovery -- Recovery and intimacy: Closing the gap -- Appendixes. How to start your own support group -- Sources of help -- Suggested reading -- Affirmations

Why do so many women become obsessed with the wrong men -- men who are emotionally unavailable, addicted to work, alcohol, or other women -- men who cannot love them back? Robin Norwood helps these women recognize, understand, and change the way they love through a series of intimate, revealing case histories

Originally published: New York : J.P. Tarcher/St. Martin's Press, 1985

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