
Love Smacked: How to Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency to Find Everlasting Love
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"This is an important book. Sherry Gaba clearly identifies a common pattern in relationships and shows the negative results on relationships of self-abandonment. --Margaret Paul, PhD, Co-Creator of Inner Bonding
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