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    How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work
    How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work
    How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work
    Audiobook8 hours

    How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work

    Written by Howard M. Halpern, PhD

    Narrated by Sean Pratt

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    About this audiobook

    Are you unable to leave a love relationship even though it gives you more pain than joy? Your judgment and self-respect tell you to end it, but still, to your dismay, you hang on. You are addicted-to a person. Now there is an insightful, step-by-step guide to breaking that addiction-and surviving the split. Drawing on dozens of provocative case histories, psychotherapist Howard Halpern explains to you:

    Why you can get addicted to a person.

    Why and how you may try to deceive yourself. ("He really loves me, he just doesn't know how to show it.")

    How you can recognize the symptoms of a bad relationship.

    How to deal with the power moves and guilt trips your partner uses to hold you.

    Why strong feelings of jealousy do not mean you are "in love."

    How to get through the agonizing breakup period-without going back.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781541470026
    How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work

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    • 5/5
      This book honestly answered so many questions for me and helped me finally walk away from a toxic relationship. Thank you writing something so helpful

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Fantastic! It's not just for people who are suffering in a relationship and can't let go. It also describes healthy relationships too. A must read!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I just read this book for the third time. I've read several other books on the topic and this one has by far been the most helpful for me. There are so many parts of it that I copied down in my journal and underlined and wrote "yes yes exactly!!" next to. So I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is dealing with being obsessed with someone. Really.