Falling in Love with Hope: How to Let Go of Potential Without Giving Up on Love (Finding the Right Partner for You) - Couverture souple

Calise, Danielle A.

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ISBN 13 : 9798193362685

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Previously published as Falling in Love with Hope: Breaking Free from the Addiction to Unhealthy Relationships by Danielle A. Calise. This second edition has been substantially revised and expanded.

You can love someone deeply and still be in love with a future that has never actually arrived.

Maybe you believed the relationship was evolving.

That the problems were temporary.

That once the next obstacle was solved—money, career, marriage, children, stress, therapy, timing—the life you were building together would finally catch up with the life you could already see.

So you kept working. Explaining. Compensating. Waiting.

And when the relationship still did not feel the way you thought it should, perhaps you began wondering whether you were the problem.

Falling in Love with Hope is not a book about blaming yourself for believing, diagnosing the person who disappointed you, or becoming cynical enough to never be hurt again.

It is about learning the difference between what could be and what is.

Danielle A. Calise explores how hope, potential, love, attachment, problem-solving, and imagined futures can become intertwined—and why highly capable women may become especially skilled at solving obstacles without realizing that sometimes the obstacle itself is information.

Through lived experience, reflection, and practical reality-checking tools, you will explore:

• the difference between potential and demonstrated capacity
• when agreement is not the same as shared desire
• how powerful feelings can become futures nobody actually promised
• the difference between understanding harmful behavior and diagnosing another person
• how to take responsibility for your choices without taking responsibility for someone else's
• why your body may be carrying distress your conscious story has not yet explained
• how to grieve the future that never arrived without giving up on what you still want
• how to trust yourself without expecting yourself to predict perfectly

This is not a lesson in giving up on hope.

It is about giving hope the right job.

Hope gets to imagine the future.
Reality gets to tell you where you are.
And you get to decide what you do next.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798193362685
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible