What You Called Love

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ISBN: 9798995453376

Lisa Reidsema

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Contemporary Curriculum Press
01 April 2026

Violence in society; Sociology: family & relationships; Social, group or collective psychology; Coping with personal problems

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You recognized yourself in the relationship at the beginning. By the time you are reading this, you may not recognize the person you became inside it. That narrowing, the slow accumulation of adjustments, edits, and overrides, is what this workbook is about.

What You Called Love is a structured, clinically grounded workbook for adults who lost themselves inside a relationship and are ready to understand how it happened and find their way back. It does not matter whether the relationship has ended or is still ongoing. What matters is that the pattern is real, its cost has been real, and seeing it clearly is the beginning of not repeating it.

The workbook traces the relational patterns that made losing yourself possible: the template, the pull, the moment of knowing and staying anyway, the quiet disappearing. It maps what was actually operating inside the relationship. And it builds the practices of coming back: not by prosecuting what happened, but by understanding it clearly enough that the next relationship does not ask you to disappear.

This workbook is for you if you have stayed in a relationship longer than you should have and still are not sure why. If you have found yourself editing what you say, what you want, and who you are in order to make a relationship work. If you have looked up one day and not recognized the person you had become. If you have left and find that leaving was only the beginning of the work.

Addresses codependency, trauma bonding, enmeshment, emotional abuse recovery, and the specific grief of loving someone at the cost of yourself. Structured for independent use or alongside therapy. Frequently recommended by therapists working with clients in or recovering from codependent or emotionally abusive relationships.

Part of the Craft Your Wellness series, clinically grounded workbooks for doing real work on real life issues.

By: Lisa Reidsema
Imprint: Contemporary Curriculum Press
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 617g
ISBN: 9798995453376
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 01 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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What You Called Love

Lisa Reidsema

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