Vera Sonja Maas - Finding Love that Lasts: Breaking the Pattern of Dead End Relationships

Vera Sonja Maass, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, counselor, and marriage and family therapist in private practice. Dr. Maass has enjoyed adjunct faculty status at local colleges and universities and has conducted several personal growth groups addressing popular psychological topics of interest to the community. She is the author of several books, including The Cinderella Test:Would You Really Want the Shoe to Fit?Subtle Ways Women Are Seducedand Socialized into Servitude and Stereotypes and Lifestyle Changes: A CliniciansGuide to Common Events, Challenges, and Options.

M y special thanks are deserved by the brave members of the Single Again groups for their willingness to share their experiences with the general public. Similarly, to clients from therapeutic settings and those individuals from the community at large who graciously consented to disclose their past experiences as well as their hopes for the future goes my sincere gratitude. Although their true identities remain hidden, their voices speak openly from the pages of this book.

Finally, I want to express my appreciation to all those courageous people who turn to advice-seeking columns in the newspapers for help with their individual relationship-related struggles. By exposing their difficulties to the public eye, they are presenting the rest of us with a real-life picture of our societythank you all and please continue with your communication efforts.

Last but certainly not least, my thanks go to senior acquisitions editor Suzanne I. Staszak-Silva for supporting the message of this book and to Melissa McNitt, associate editor, production, for her careful attention to all the details during the production phase of the book.

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