Baggage Claim
Everybody has baggage. The question is whether you’re carrying yours—or making the next person carry it for you.
Baggage Claim is a blunt, funny, and sometimes brutally relatable look at what we drag from our past into our relationships: old wounds, trust issues, triggers, bad habits, expectations, insecurities, and lessons learned the hard way.
Jason Giardino takes real-life relationship experiences and turns them into practical lessons about understanding your partner, communicating without trying to win, setting boundaries without controlling each other, keeping your identity while loving someone else, and recognizing when your past is influencing something happening right now.
This isn’t therapy-speak.
It isn’t a clinical relationship manual.
And it definitely isn’t a book pretending love is always pretty.
It’s real-world relationship advice about the shit that actually happens between two imperfect people trying to build something healthy.
Inside Baggage Claim, you’ll explore how to:
- Recognize when you’re reacting to your partner—or reacting to your past
- Stop making someone new pay for what somebody else did
- Fight without trying to destroy each other
- Set healthy boundaries without turning them into rules or punishment
- Love somebody without losing yourself
- Stop keeping score and start acting like a team
- Keep dating your person after the honeymoon phase is over
- Recognize when patience is producing progress—and when it’s becoming permission
- Understand what it actually means to find your person and then be theirs
You’ll laugh. You might get pissed off. You’ll probably recognize yourself—or somebody you’ve dated—more than once.
And hopefully, before you carry another old suitcase into a new relationship, you’ll remember one simple thing:
Check the tag.
Because your new partner shouldn’t have to serve a sentence for a crime your ex committed.
BAGGAGE CLAIM
A Guide to Navigating Love, Triggers, Trauma & Everything Else You’re Dragging Into Relationships
By Jason Giardino