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Obsessive Love: When It Hurts Too Much to Let Go Paperback – January 2, 2002

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“Riveting! Once again, Susan Forward has shone a light on relationships in her uniquely compassionate and dramatic way.”
— Dr. Barbara De Angelis, author of
What Women Want Men to Know


Bantam Books by Susan Forward:

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them:
When Loving Hurts and You Don’t Know Why

Obsessive Love:
When It Hurts Too Much to Let Go

Toxic Parents:
Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

From the Inside Flap

Is it impossible to let go ? despite the pain?

? Do you yearn for someone who is not physically or emotionally available to you?
? Do you believe that if you love him enough he will have to love you?
? When you feel insecure, does it drive you only to want her more?
? Do you find yourself phoning repeatedly or waiting long hours for the phone to ring?

Do you wish someone would let go of you?

? Does an ex-lover or ex-spouse refuse to believe that it?s over?
? Do you receive unwanted phone calls, letters, presents, or visits?
? Is this pursuit of you creating so much anxiety that it affects your physical or emotional well-being?

In this invaluable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward presents vivid case histories as well as the real-life voices of men and women caught in the grip of obsessive passion.

Whether you?re an obsessive lover or the target of such an obsession, here is a proven, step-by-step program that shows you how to recognize the ?connection compulsion,? what causes it, and how to break its hold on your life so that you can go on to build healthy, lasting, and pain-free relationships.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; Reprint edition (January 2, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 278 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553381423
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553381429
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.62 x 8.23 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Susan Forward, PhD is the author of the #1 New York Times best sellers "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them" and "Toxic Parents" as well as numerous other books including "Obsessive Love," "Money Demons," "Emotional Blackmail," "When Your Lover Is a Liar," "Toxic In-Laws" and "Betrayal of Innocence." Her newest book, "Mothers Who Can't Love," launches nationally on October 1, 2013.

In addition to her success as an author her, Susan is one of the nation's leading psychotherapists, a dynamic lecturer and highly sought after talk-show guest including having hosted her own ABC Talk Radio show for six years. In addition to her private practice, she has served as a therapist, instructor and consultant for many Southern California psychiatric and medical facilities.

Through her books, therapy practice, lectures and media appearances, Susan's groundbreaking work has opened up exciting new worlds of confidence, inner strength and emotional independence for countless women and men.

To learn more about Susan, please visit her website at www.SusanForward.com or like her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SusanForwardPhD

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It's me. :(
This book is an eye opening self-evaluation that, if it's doing its job correctly, will make you feel uncomfortable and defensive.The fact is, Obsessive Love has given me a new perspective on what I always thought was a passionate, once-in-a-lifetime love, and helped me to see that it was probably only that to me, in my head. I didn't even need to do the journaling exercises because as luck would have it, I recently published a 400 page memoir about that 18-month affair.In a way, I feel embarrassed by it now. Because even when the relationship was over, I looked back on it with nostalgia and saudade, pouring every emotion into the pages.But I guess at the same time, doing so has freed me to let it go and see it for what it really was. The fantasy is now out of my head and on paper, and the reality is that I was probably nothing more than an obsessed clinger, ignoring the giant signs of disinterest she was trying to get me to see.The book described my behavior very accurately. While our relationship never became physically abusive, it did become emotionally toxic. I still don't understand the "why" of how I got this way, but I recognize the "what". And that alone will go a long way towards the "how" to make sure I never allow myself to become that ever again.Thank you for the brutal honesty.
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