All the Good Ones Aren't Taken: Change the Way You Date and Find Lasting Love

The New York City psychologist known as ""Dr. Debbie"" here pinpoints a handful of women's common dating errors.Solid relationships, she says, founder on insecurity and innate negativity, and she goes on to catalog eight types of ""dissatisfied singles"" in the chapters that follow. ""The Whirlwind Dater,"" is ""attractive and vivacious"" but substitutes constant activity for real groundedness."" ""The Forbidden Fruit Hunter"" gets involved with men who are married or otherwise emotionally unavailable, often because they are replaying lack of love in childhood. And then there is ""The Runaway Bride"" (who got her own movie in 1999). She ""might be very smart and insightful about other people"" but clueless about her own deepest dreams and true ambitions. Writing with freelancer Peske, Magids offers plenty of dating testimony from a variety of women, allows readers to identify parts of themselves in straightforward terms, and gives concrete correctives for making change.