Letting Go of Toxic Relationships: Breaking Free from People Who Drain You (Letting Go Series)

You are not too sensitive. You are not imagining it. And the problem is not you.
You set boundaries everywhere else in your life, yet with this one person you cannot. You feel exhausted, diminished, and on edge, and you have started to wonder whether your unhappiness is simply the price of love. It is not.
Letting Go of Toxic Relationships is a clear, compassionate, and expert guide to recognising the relationships that are draining you and understanding why they have been so impossibly hard to leave. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and attachment research, it gives language to what you have been living through and shows you, without judgement, exactly what has been happening and why.
In this book you will discover:

• The seven types of toxic people, from the Narcissist to the Passive-Aggressive Manipulator, and how to identify precisely who you are dealing with
• Why good, empathetic, responsible people are the ones most often targeted, and how your finest qualities have been used against you
• The hidden costs of staying, including the toll on your physical health, mental health, finances, career, and sense of self
• The psychological hooks that hold you in place, including intermittent reinforcement, trauma bonding, the sunk cost fallacy, and the fear of being alone
• How to navigate the unique guilt of toxic family members, and why “blood is thicker than water” becomes poison when it is used to excuse harm
• The truth about trauma bonds and codependence, and why leaving feels like withdrawal rather than relief