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Chanaye Arline
Professor Crossman
Communications 12
October 22, 2012
Robin Norwood: Women Who Love Too Much – When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He’ll
Change
Women Who Love Too Much is a book geared towards bringing self-awareness to its
readers. The author, Robin Norwood, explores issues such as to how the woman intrinsically
becomes both addicted to love and co-dependent while displaying such traits and characteristics,
void of any restrictions, with the men they love. By doing so, they compromise their needs and
wants while diminishing their self-worth. Norwood presents several case studies in her book that
brings to life what she concluded to be why women love too much. By means of her case
studies, Norwood noted that all have a commonality: each subject was pre-disposed to such
emotional or biochemically conditions that made them love, so to speak, in such an obsessive
fashion (Norwood 9.) Furthermore, it is believed by Norwood that these same women typically
come from dysfunctional homes in which their emotional needs remained undernourished and as
a result, they seek out similar relationships that will replicate the same (Norwood 8.) In relation
to Communication concepts, each case study’s predicament was the result of Self-fulfilling
Prophecy. In each case, the women’s fear, the fear of abandonment, came to pass resulting from
the actions she set forth in motion. Although this book is an effective tool in bringing cognitive
stimuli to the reader who falls into similar quandaries, its purpose is not to diagnose or treat any
ailments that may be present in the reader’s life.
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Robin Norwood, author of “Women Who Love Too Much,” expounds her thesis by
presenting several case studies which is explored to render its argument true. The main argument
Norwood presents about women who love too much is that these women were pre-disposed to
such emotional or biochemically conditions that in turn causes them to behave in an obsessive
fashion (Norwood 9.) The author contends that these women typically come from dysfunctional
homes in which their emotional needs were not met because they received very little, if any
nurturing (Norwood 8.) As a result of the lack of emotional nurturing, these women were void of
emotional attachments from their parents and sought such attachment in mate(s). Since these
women failed at their attempts to transform their parent(s) into the ideal loving parent(s) that
they so longed for, they usually resort to what is familiar which is usually selecting mates who
