How to Center Yourself While Dating a Man

Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin: brilliant, powerful, self-made women who got swallowed whole by relationships with men who could not match them and could not leave them alone, and whose stories get told as tragedies of love instead of what they actually were.
 
You already know what it costs a woman to lose herself in a man. This book is about making sure it doesn't cost you.
 
Written from real experience and hard-won clarity, this guide gives you the practical tools to move through dating without abandoning the version of yourself you worked to build, teaching you how to recognize the patterns that precede the erosion before they have enough momentum to become your story, protect your energy and self-worth inside romantic connection rather than in spite of it, stay anchored in who you are while remaining genuinely open to partnership, and understand the difference between love that adds to you and attachment that slowly takes you apart.
 
The goal was never to avoid men. It was to stop disappearing when they arrived.