Some people are naturally unpleasant – or even toxic, if you prefer – and they carry on this toxicity to their relationships, family, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Toxic relationships are characterized by bitterness, violence, abuse, and emotional instability. It is always emotionally and physically damaging to the subordinate partner, and mostly hurtful or harmful to individual wellbeing.
When an individual is in a toxic relationship, the situation can be remedied with lots of hard work and personal sacrifices; and at other times, it is always best to leave the relationship. Toxic relationships have led to insecurity, ill-health, hospitalization, and even death in certain cases. It is possible for the toxic partner to turn around and change for the better, but this is not often without the intervention of third parties or professional resources.
Best Books on Toxic Relationships: Our Top Picks
People in toxic relationships often require help to remain sane. The help can come in form of books – and in fact, there are self-help books written by professional relationship experts and behavioral therapists with decades of experiences. Since many people in abusive relationships shy away from contacting or visiting therapists for help, these books on toxic relationships can be very invaluable to salvaging things.
Our editorial team has curated the following 8 best books on toxic relationships, and you will find them very helpful in enjoying a rewarding relationship experience.
1. Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People
Available in paperback and Kindle edition, this book is about surviving psychopathy. It deals extensively with recovering from emotionally abusive relationships and healing from inner hurts. The author demonstrates that toxic people are everywhere, and you need specialized knowledge to survive dealing with them. Sociopaths, narcisissists, and socially-violent people must be handled with care and wisdom, or things might go north.
According to the author, “In constant pursuit of money, sex, influence, or simple entertainment, psychopaths will do whatever it takes to gain power over others. They hide behind a veil of normalcy, arranging their friends and partners like pawns in a game of chess.”
This book will help you to identify psychopaths or toxic people, and empower you to beat them at their manipulations and mind-games. You will heal naturally from the psychological torture orchestrated by unpleasant people, and the knowledge revealed in this book will give you dominance and control over relationships that are potentially harmful to your general wellbeing and personal interests.
- Author(s): Jackson MacKenzie
- Publisher: Berkley
- Current Edition: Expanded Edition (September 2015)
- Pages: 304
2. Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days
If you find yourself begging for love, attention, and affection in a supposedly romantic relationship, then you are in a toxic bondage. If you feel powerless to end an unpleasant relationship and control what happens within the relationship, then you are addicted to pain. Your brain and body are beginning to rationalize toxicity as the unhealthy form of love for you. You need help; and you can be in control again within 30 days.
Drugs and alcohol are very addictive, and enticing. So is abusive relationship sometimes. When an individual loves their abusive partner and are obsessed with their cruelty, then they need help. They have become addicted to pain and sympathetic of toxic partners. They no longer understand the true definition of love, and they have become inclined to painful love and emotional abuse.
This book will open your eyes to the fact that a relationship can kick off on a healthy plane and evolve into an abusive, hurtful cycle. It provides help on managing difficult people and making the best of romantic relationships.
- Author(s): Rainie Howard
- Publisher: Howard Global Enterprise
- Current Edition: April 2016
- Pages: 160
3. Toxic Relationships
Toxic relationships are created by toxic people. And in situations where toxic people are damaging to their loving partners, the best solution is to vacate such relationships. Gary Thomas’ book is about “finding freedom from toxic people” and knowing “when to walk away” from such evil people. It takes inner strenght to deal with abusive partners, and the only solution in most cases may be to head out the door.
This book strenghtens you to take the right step. It emboldens you to do something about that abusive relationship. And it enables you orchestrate romantic relationships to your own advantage and personal betterment.
- Author(s): Gary Thomas
- Publisher: Z Trade Books
- Current Edition: ITPE Edition (September 2019)
- Pages: 240
4. Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self after Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse
Authored by Jackson MacKenzie, this book is for children who have suffered parental abuse and spouses who have experienced emotional abuse from their partners. It is also for students who have been bullied, employees with toxic bosses, and neighbors with uncaring neighbors. In any way you have suffered abusive relationships, this book will make you whole again by teaching you how to recover your old, happy self.
People who have experienced toxic and abusive relationships suffer depression, drug abuse, alcoholism, and dejection among others. But Jackson MacKenzie’ book demonstrates that it doesn’t have to be this way. You can bounce back to life and health again; you can rediscover purpose again, and you can fully heal your life and relationships again.
- Author(s): Jackson MacKenzie
- Publisher: TarcherPerigee
- Current Edition: January 2019)
- Pages: 304
5. Love Yourself First: How to Heal from Toxic People, Create Healthy Relationships & Become a Confident Woman (The Love Yourself First Series)
This book is about helping others to love you by demonstrating self-love yourself. It enables you to show others how to love you by demonstrating self-esteem, true love, proven happiness, and selfless love to others. It shows how to get people to respond to and relate with you the way you deserve. It helps you to realize that you deserve more than you give to yourself, and teaches you the way to get others to appreciate you for what you really are.
Love Yourself First was written by a relationship expert and behavioral psychologist. Krystle Laughter-Parker runs an academy that helps hurting people get back on their feet, and to shape others into what they want to see and have. This is one book that you really must have to experience true love.
- Author(s): Krystle Laughter-Parker
- Publisher: Fortre Publishing Co.
- Current Edition: April 2020
- Pages: 162
6. The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
This book is two-faced: it teaches you how to stop being abused and how to stop abusing others. Millions of people around the world are experiencing subtle and systematic abuse without really realizing it, and those who know it do not know how to best manage the situation. With 7 in 10 couples suffering emotional abuse, this book can help you become the best of yourself by helping your partner fulfill a true purpose.
“The Emotionally Abusive Relationship will tell you how to identify emotional abuse and how to find the roots of your behavior,” the author wrote.“ Combining dramatic personal stories with action steps to heal, Engel provides prescriptive strategies that will allow you and your partner to work together to stop bringing out the worst in each other.”
- Author(s): Beverly Engel
- Publisher: Wiley
- Current Edition: First Edition (September 2015)
- Pages: 272
7. Becoming Toxic Person Proof
If you have trusted someone and suffered for it, or you feel emotionally vulnerable, then you must get Becoming Toxic Person Proof. This book helps you to make sense of every situation and understand how people’s minds work as well as what makes them do what they do. It empowers you to clear the confusion caused by people by teaching you how to trust yourself best.
“Toxic people talk you out of listening to your intuition,” author Sarah Ramsey revealed. “They talk you out of seeing the red flags and make you feel like you are overreacting when you notice odd behavior. They talk you out of believing yourself and teach you to believe their lies instead.” But with this bestselling book on toxic relationships, you will understand unpleasant people better and learn how to beat them at their game.
- Author(s): Sarah K. Ramsey
- Publisher: Sarah K. Ramsey
- Current Edition: February 2021
- Pages: 194
8. Toxic Relationships 101: 5 Easy Ways To Handle Your Abuser, Control Your Own Future, And Walk-Away Happier Than EVER in 7 Weeks!
This book empowers you to run the show, control how things work out, and enjoy the best of every relationship. It demonstrates the best ways to handle your abuser and come out victorious in every unpleasant situation. This is one literary resource that empowers you to stand up for yourself and live the life you have always wanted and deserve.
The author of Toxic Relationships 101 demonstrates that some people demand more than they can give, and this drains you and even harms you. To overcome this problem, this book equips you to see through the defective personalities of sociopaths and toxic people, and to extricate yourself in the most mature manner. Toxic relationships could be experienced with family members, spouses, friends, associates, and neighbors, but you can hold all the aces when you acquire this book.
- Author(s): J. Fairbank
- Publisher: Independently published
- Current Edition: April 2021
- Pages: 154
