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The Compatibility Trap: Let Go of the Perfect Fit and Find Lasting Love

The Compatibility Trap: Let Go of the Perfect Fit and Find Lasting Love

Balsari, Sanna

Paperback

RelationshipsSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $18.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 2, 2027

ISBN10: 0063492369
ISBN13: 9780063492363
Publisher: Harper Influence
Published: Feb 2 2027
Pages: 304
Language: English

In The Compatibility Trap, psychologist Dr. Sanna Balsari upends everything you thought you knew about love, revealing that chasing the 'perfect fit' can hold us back from lasting and fulfilling relationships.

There's a golden rule in modern dating: compatibility is the key to happiness. We take tests, compare traits, and search endlessly for our perfect match--for that someone who completes us. But what if this obsession with compatibility is doing more harm than good?

In The Compatibility Trap, Cambridge PhD psychologist and professor Dr. Sanna Balsari makes the persuasive case that we've been going about love all wrong. She draws on psychological research and real-life examples to persuasively show why compatibility simply is not the be-all-end-all we've made it out to be. While some degree of 'fit' in a relationship is necessary, lasting relationships are forged in the harder, more rewarding work of embracing friction.

Drawing on her own dramatic search for her 'most compatible match', Dr Sanna Balsari reveals that our misunderstanding of compatibility says less about love itself and more about our cultural discomfort with differences. Dr. Balsari-Palsule places compatibility in its broader historical and social context, and dismantles the myths that continue to shape how we choose our partners and evaluate our relationships. She then introduces a practical framework for working with differences that emerge in a relationship using three categories:

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