Loving Too Much — Disease or Decision?

Abstract

“Loving Too Much” is neither a disease nor an addiction. In this article the author explains the behaviors described in Norwood's popular self-help book as a series of survival adaptations or script decisions which attempt to re-create an original symbiosis and resolve early life dilemmas.

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