The Love Liar A Memoir of Codependency, Narcissism, and the Pursuit of Self-Love

The love lies began at the age of six. When her mother died, Carin told her herself she was the reason she lost her mother's love. As an adult, she based relationships with others on her false ideas, making her a prime target for manipulating, narcissistic personalities.
In her marriage, her habit of deception melded with his manipulative lies. He took everything she gave and more until there was nothing left to give and she developed an auto-immune condition which plagued her over their twenty-year marriage.
Although she found the strength to leave, the disease came back two years later with an ultimatum; either learn to love yourself or lose your life. In the ambulance, for the first time, Carin began to see her love lies.
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