Staying Wasn't Weakness.

B.F. Skinner's pigeons revealed a brutal truth about human attachment: the bond that forms with unpredictable reward is stronger than any consistent love. This book maps that mechanism onto the relationship you can't leave, drawing on Lundy Bancroft's work on controlling behavior and Levine and Heller's attachment theory. Variable-ratio reinforcement explains why the person who is sometimes wonderful is harder to quit than the one who is always terrible. Your brain isn't broken; it's running ancient software on the wrong target.

You'll learn:

- Why casinos hide clocks and volatile partners hide patterns

- How sunk cost keeps you at the table another year

- The two-week tracking method that makes fog visible