Different faces, different names - but somehow the same emotional distance, the same slow unraveling, the same moment where you think: how did I end up here again?
The answer isn't that you're broken. It isn't that you're too much, or not enough, or simply unlucky in love. The answer is a pattern - and patterns, unlike luck, can be changed.
How to Stop Attracting the Wrong People is the warm, direct, and surprisingly entertaining guide to understanding exactly what you've been doing - and why it keeps producing the same result. Relationship counselor and behavioral pattern coach Celdron Alexander draws on fifteen years of working with individuals and couples to map the 88 most common patterns that keep smart, self-aware people stuck in the wrong relationships.
This is not a heavy psychology textbook. It is a conversation with the most honest friend you've ever had - one who happens to know a great deal about why human beings do what they do when they're trying to love each other.
Inside, you'll discover:
Why you keep finding the same emotionally unavailable person in a different body - and the specific signal you're sending that calls them inThe exact moment in early dating where the pattern gets set, and how to catch it before it catches youWhat "I just want to help them" is actually protecting you from - and why the person who needs fixing never quite gets fixedHow to tell whether you're staying in a relationship out of love, or out of the fear of being aloneEvery one of the 88 patterns ends with a Break It - a single, specific action that interrupts the pattern at its most accessible point. Not vague advice. Not a journaling prompt that goes nowhere. A small, usable move you can make before you finish the chapter.
You don't need to have had a terrible childhood to recognize yourself in these pages. You just need to have been human in a relationship, which is to say: you'll recognize yourself on almost every page.
The truth about your patterns is not as hard to hear as you feared.
It is harder to keep avoiding.