Built to be Broken - Signed and Personally Dedicated by Jared Whitaker

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Have you ever wondered why you, someone who loves deeply, gives generously, and would never deliberately hurt another person, keeps ending up with someone who does exactly that to you?

The answer isn't bad luck. It isn't weakness. And it has nothing to do with what you deserve.

It goes back much further than you think.

In Built To Be Broken, abuse survivor and author Jared Whitaker reveals the full picture of why empaths are deliberately targeted by narcissists and abusers, tracing the journey from the wounds of childhood all the way through to practical, research-backed tools for breaking the cycle for good.

Inside you will find:

• The psychology of why highly empathetic people are targeted, and how abusers identify and pursue them with devastating precision.
• The science of love bombing, mirroring, and trauma bonding, explained clearly and without clinical distance.
• A deep exploration of adverse childhood experiences, attachment theory, people pleasing, and intergenerational trauma, and how they connect to the relationship patterns you have been living.
• Why leaving an abusive relationship is necessary but not sufficient, and what inner healing actually requires alongside practical escape.
• How to recognise the early warning signs of narcissistic behaviour before a relationship takes hold, including the signs that are specifically designed to be invisible until it is too late.
• How to rebuild healthy limits, often for the first time, in a way that feels natural rather than like a betrayal of who you are.
• How to reclaim your empathy as the genuine gift it is, while closing the gap that made it exploitable.
• Practical journal prompts at the end of every chapter to help you apply what you are reading to your own specific history and healing journey.
• Warm, honest, and written by someone who has lived every word of it, this is the book for anyone who has ever loved too hard, stayed too long, tried too hard, and blamed themselves for all of it.

Jared Whitaker is the author of six previous books on domestic abuse, false allegations, and parental alienation, and has been featured on Sky TV and BBC discussing the hidden crisis of survivors.

You were built to be broken by someone who knew exactly what they were doing.

But you were also built to heal.