Dead-End Lovers: How to Avoid Them and Find True Intimacy

Establishing and maintaining a meaningful, satisfying, and enduring intimate relationship can be elusive for many people. Time and again, they are drawn to lovers with whom the relationship is futile, ending with hurt feelings and regrets. In this work, Nina Brown shares her longtime experience as a professional counselor to help those who ask: "Why do I keep picking unsuitable lovers?" Brown calls them "dead-end lovers," and in this work she shows us, not only how to spot them early and avoid them, but also what it is--what psychological needs we have --that attracts us to them.

Nina W. Brown is Professor and Eminent Scholar of Counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Nationally Certified Counselor, and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She obtained her Doctorate in Counseling from The College of William and Mary, and is the author of 17 published books, includingCoping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People (Praeger, 2006) and The Unfolding Life (Praeger, 2003).