Brenda M Schaeffer: 7 books

Addictive love for another person limits our ability to experience real love. The author suggests ways we can meet our own needs, enabling us to love another from a healthy perspective. The self-help exercises help us identify the roots of our love addiction and lead us toward self-love and self-discovery.

Addiction to a person is not the same as true love. The author discusses twenty characteristics of love addiction. When we identify addictive elements in our relationships, we can learn to change them, building on the best aspects of our love for another.

Most of us are, have been, or will be involved in a significant love relationship. When we know the signs of healthy love, our chances of achieving fulfillment in our love for another increase. This pamphlet outlines the characteristics of mature, healthy love and suggests how to avoid dependent or addictive relationships.

Most people, at some time, will be involved in a significant love relationship. The pamphlet discusses the unhealthy power struggles between partners in dependent relationships, offering suggestions for behavior changes which lead to the mutual respect of mature love.

To move to mature love we must learn to share power with others. The author discusses power sharing as an alternative to power plays, describes how true power develops, presents ten skills to help us power share and lists twenty-three signs of power sharing.

Muchos de nosotros confundimos la infatuacion y la obsesion con el amor verdadero. Las dos edicions previas de Es amor o es adiccion? han ayudado a mucha gente a encontrar el camino a partir de las tribulaciones y la confusion del amor adictivo hasta lograr relaciones enteras y sanas. Tal como la...

A fresh, updated, and expanded edition of the book that changed the way we think about romance and intimacy. Many of us confuse longing and obsession with true love. Through two previous editions, Is It Love or Is It Addiction? has helped countless people find their way from the trials and...