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Love Addicts Anonymous

Books about Breaking Up

Tradition 6 states, "An LAA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the LAA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose." Therefore, LAA in no way endorses or recommends any of these books. This is just a list of what is available on the market. The determination that posting this list is NOT an endorsement or violation of tradition 6 was determined at the first LAA Intergroup meeting on August 27, 2005. This decision will be reviewed in a year. Feel free to submit your opinion to LAA World Service about this. Since LAA is not recommending these books, we will add others as they become available on the market. We need your help with this, so contact us if you know of any books not on this list.

Listed in alphabetical order.
All of these books can be found online.

How to Fall Out of Love: How to Free Yourself from Love That Hurts and Find Love that Heals. Robert Judd and Dr. Deborah Phillips.

Letting Go: A 12-Week Personal Action Program to Overcome a Broken Heart. Tracy Cabot.

How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days. Howard Bronson.

How to Survive the Loss of a Love. Peter McWilliams.

Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours. Daphne Rose Kingma.

Don't Call That Man. Rhonda Findling.

Most of the books on love addiction also have a section of how to end a relationship. No one really knows how to stop obsessing. John Bradshaw called love addiction a "thinking disorder." You can try "thought stopping." Think of your mind as a t.v. and learn how to turn the channel. Also, there is aversion therapy, which is thinking really gross things about the person you are obsessing about. Remember, it is progress not perfection.