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

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.