"This book helps girls and women identify the patterns and signs so you don't fall into the trap abusers set. Coercive control is often dressed up as romance - we've all been groomed and conditioned. Some of these men aren't just idiots - they are dangerous. Understand your worth, trust your gut, choose you and RUN."
laura richards, crime analyst and coercive control expert
Your Idiot Era is Over.
If you're tired of analysing mixed signals, repeating old patterns, and wondering why dating keeps ending in disappointment, this book will help you spot what's really happening beneath the surface.
Through real stories, practical insights, and memorable lessons, Quit Dating Idiots will show you how to:
- Recognise the three types of dating idiots you'll encounter - and how to protect yourself from the manipulative and dangerous ones
- Spot red flags, incompatibilities, and emotional unavailability before you're deeply invested
- Unpack the patterns that have kept you stuck in the same disappointing dating dynamics for years
- Reconnect with your body's built-in wisdom so you can trust yourself and your judgement again
- Date with greater clarity, confidence, and discernment using Laura's practical framework for making better romantic decisions
- Step into your Big Love era and create the kind of secure, reciprocal relationship you've imagined.
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What Others Are Saying...
Sylvia Kalicinski, PhD
"Laura Forbes delivers an insightful and refreshingly honest guide to modern dating that is as practical as it is engaging. With warmth and humor, she unpacks complex concepts like attachment styles and emotional patterns in a way that feels deeply relatable and easy to apply. As a family therapist, I especially value her emphasis on self-awareness and boundaries—captured powerfully in the idea that we’re not just encountering unhealthy dynamics, we’re often participating in them. This is a validating, empowering read that inspires real change."
Jess Baker, Chartered Psychologist, Author of The Super-Helper Syndrome
"Laura’s like the funny best friend, clear-eyed confidante and insightful coach every woman needs when love has started to feel confusing. With honesty, humour and tenderness, she shares her own experience of relationships with 'idiots' to show how easily intelligent women can find themselves stuck, then gently shines a light on the path back to healing, self-trust and the kind of Big Love you no longer have to earn, chase or shrink yourself to receive."
Ilona Brannen, Delighted Client
"I wish I'd found Laura sooner. I was dating idiot after idiot until her insight opened my eyes to all the ways I was holding myself back. Today I'm with a kind, committed guy who is perfect for me, and I'm never left guessing. This book is full of the wisdom that helped me get there."
About the Author
Hi, I'm Laura
I'm a relationship coach and author of Quit Dating Idiots: The No B-S Guide to Love, Boundaries and Trusting Your Gut. This book is everything I've learned from years of coaching women who are done second-guessing themselves and are ready for something real.
But it wasn't always this way...
Ten years ago, I was the woman who kept choosing men who couldn't meet me emotionally. I'd attract a string of unavailable partners and convince myself I wasn't "enough" - or that if I just held on a little longer, things would work out. They never did.
I spent years in therapy, read every attachment and self-help book I could get my hands on and became very good at understanding my patterns. But understanding them wasn't enough. I still found myself overriding my instincts, justifying red flags, and repeating the same disappointing dynamics with different people.
Everything changed when I stopped trying to think my way into a different outcome and started listening to what my body, intuition, and lived experience had been trying to tell me all along.
That's when I learned how to trust myself again. And that's why I wrote Quit Dating Idiots.
This book is the guide I wish I'd had back then. It's everything I've learned from my own journey and from years of coaching smart, emotionally intelligent women to stop second-guessing themselves in dating, trust their instincts, and create the secure, reciprocal, fulfilling relationships they once thought were unrealistic.
