Quit Dating Idiots: The No BS Guide to Love, Boundaries, and Trusting Your Gut

Somewhere along the way, you stopped trusting yourself Do you keep ending up with emotionally unavailable partners, wondering why the same patterns repeat? Quit Dating Idiots reveals why you keep talking yourself out of what your gut already knows—and how to break the cycle for good. Drawing on her own experiences, client breakthroughs and more than a decade of helping women rebuild self-trust and transform their relationships, trauma-informed relationship coach Laura Forbes combines practical tools with deep insight to help you see why these patterns keep repeating, why they can feel so hard to leave behind, and how to find your way back to yourself. Whether you’re exhausted by dating, stuck on someone you already know can’t meet your needs, or wondering why you keep overriding your own instincts, this book will help you see your relationship patterns with a clarity you can’t unsee, trust yourself again and move differently in love. “Laura’s like the funny best friend, clear-eyed confidante and insightful coach every woman needs when love has started to feel confusing. With honesty, humor and tenderness, she shares her own experience of relationships with ‘idiots’ to show how easily intelligent women can find themselves stuck, then gently shines a light on the path back to healing, self-trust and the kind of Big Love you no longer have to earn, chase or shrink yourself to receive.” —JESS BAKER, Chartered Psychologist, author of The Super-Helper Syndrome Clarity, insight, and emotional wisdom to choose love without settling or losing yourself Quit Dating Idiots is a raw, relatable guide for anyone stuck in the pattern of chasing chemistry with emotionally unavailable partners. It helps readers understand how attachment styles, nervous system dysregulation, and limiting beliefs shape their dating lives—and how to break free from these cycles. Blending personal stories with client breakthroughs and practical tools, the book weaves psychological insight with warmth and wit, guiding readers to trust their gut, honor their truth, and build love stories that begin with themselves. Written by Laura Forbes, a trauma-informed relationship coach and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) with over 166,000 Instagram followers, this book guides readers to: Understand emotional, psychological, somatic, and energetic roots of your dating life—and the real magic that happens when you start living in alignment with your truth Achieve self-worth and healthy boundaries, two essential requisites to build secure, fulfilling relationships Choose yourself again and again, instead of just dodging red flags Find the courage to walk away from someone who isn’t an idiot—but isn’t your future, either Quit Dating Idiots is for anyone who’s been stuck in the loop of chasing chemistry, blaming themselves and surviving off a diet of stale breadcrumbs. It’s time for more, because secure love isn’t boring—it’s the revolution you’ve been waiting for.