Women Who Love Too Much

Apr 20, 2025 10:48 AM

Author:Robin Norwood

THE INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER HELPING MILLIONS OF WOMEN FIND HEALTHIER RELATIONSHIPS

'A life-changing book'

Erica Jong

Is your relationship the most important thing in your life? Are you constantly thinking and talking about your partner, or finding excuses for their bad behaviour?

If you have ever found yourself obsessing over an undeserving partner, this book was written for you. Many women are repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships, and then struggle to make these doomed relationships work. In this bestselling psychology book, leading relationship and marriage therapist Robin Norwood reveals why we get into unhealthy relationships and how powerfully addictive they are - and shares her effective framework for finding and sustaining love.

Updated edition with a new introduction

What readers are saying:

'A must read for everyone, women and men alike'

'One of the best self-help books I have read'

'A life changing book - brutally honest and straightforward - yet full of love and compassion'

'Such an insightful read'

'Brilliant, life-changing'

Reviews

'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

Really brilliant. It explained why women seek completion by obsessing over men. I absolutely related to it.

—— Marian Keyes , Mail on Sunday

A life-changing book for women

—— Erica Jong

highly recommended

—— Daily Record

Poignant and frank... A truly fascinating glimpse into our private lives and longings.

—— Daily Mail

Scintillating reading.

—— Leicester Mercury

[The] ultimate page-turner.

—— Zest

A compulsive collection.

—— Independent on Sunday

Shocking and often moving... An insightful peek at other people's hearts and minds.

—— Good Housekeeping

Captivating...fascinating...His answer to the questions “Nature or nurture?” is both. If that sounds like a hedge, it isn’t: instead, it’s a testament to the author’s close attention to nuance.

—— New York Times

Intelligently, rigorously and politely debunks the "10,000 hours" myth

—— Ed Smith , New Statesman

Perhaps the most fascinating book of the year... Absorbing and full of fascinating detail

—— Chris Maume , Independent

This subtle, enthralling study by the Sports Illustrated writer avoids making excessive claims for genetics

—— Financial Times

David Epstein's The Sports Gene has a discussion that badly needs to happen at all levels in sport; about the relationships between talent, genetics, practice and success in sport

—— Dave MacLeod , Scotsman

Respect is due to Epstein…for injecting some objectivity into the debate with his gripping new tome

—— David Bradford , Cycling Active

The Sports Gene offers a fascinating insight into the topic of nature v nurture…a great read

—— Jason Henderson , Athletics Weekly

A welcome corrective to those who have deliberately underplayed the notion that genetic makeup is relevant

—— Oldie

An illuminating read

—— Sport

Fascinating

—— Rick Broadbent , The Times

Well written and contains important research, and has some wonderful anecdotes

—— Matthew Syed , The Times

The most intriguing sports books of the year, and possibly the best-researched

—— Irish Examiner

An enjoyable mixture of easily digestible science, anecdote and argument

—— Michael Beloff , Times Literary Supplement

This is a book to counter the 10,000-hour rule popularised by Malcolm Gladwell

—— Mark Gallagher , Daily Mail

In a book packed with fascinating anecdotes, it’s hard to pick out highlights … If sport is a passion, The Sports Gene is required reading

—— The Score

Highly entertaining and enlightening

—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on Sunday

The Sports Gene does not try to simplify the nature vs nurture argument, but it does provide a welcome corrective to those who have underplayed the notion that genetic make-up is relevant

—— The Times

Epstein explores this territory with canny verve

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

Interesting reading

—— Alastair Mabbott , Herald

Dazzling and illuminating

—— Richard Moore , Guardian

Epstein is too respectful of the complexity of his subject matter to leap to any grand conclusions. The book was conceived partially as a rebuttal to glib theorising, and it is all the more fascinating as a result

—— Ken Early , Irish Times

Fascinating from start to finish

—— Amanda Khouv , Women's Fitness

Epstein forces us to rethink the very nature of athleticism

—— GrrlScientist , Guardian

Looks at the science of extraordinary athletic performance.

—— Adam Whitehead , Daily Telegraph

Captivating… Dazzling and illuminating

—— Richard Moore , Guardian

Epstein is not afraid to follow science in “trekking deep into the bramble patches of sensitive topics like gender and race"

—— Choice

Captivating… In a particularly fascinating chapter, Epstein investigates an old theory that purports to explain why Jamaica produces so many Olympic sprinters

—— Christie Ashwanden , Scotsman

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