How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When and Why Love Doesn't Work, and What to Do About It
Are you in love--or addicted? How to know when to call it  quits...and how to find the courage to call it quits.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 Helpern 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.How not to get caught in such  a painful relationship again.