Is it normal for love to hurt? This book explores the damaging effects of when love hurts. Society teaches us that love sometimes hurts, but there is a difference when the person you love is also the person who destroys, belittles, controls and breaks your spirit. I am not an expert, but I do have experience in loving a narcissist and hoping that he would change. The emotional abuse caused tremendous trauma to myself and my children. Trauma changes you as a person and changes the way your brain works while processing emotions and memory. Abuse is damaging children's developing brain and leave deep and invisible emotional scars. I wrote this book in the hope to help others who might have questions or struggles about the person they love and is it normal for love to hurt this much. Is it normal for you to offer and lose pieces of yourself while still having to walk on eggshells. Often times society tells us to work harder and to put in more effort, but if the person you love is a narcissist it will only cause you to lose little pieces of yourself until you wake up one day and you don't recognize the person in the mirror anymore. Hope is important to have, but we should not forget to be rational and to keep boundaries. Hopefully this book will serve as a help guide to some, even if it is to remember you are not alone.