9 Reasons You Stay in Bad Relationships For Too Long

And why it's better to start over than to double down on a mistake.

She should have left him twenty years ago.

Linda, 67, was living with her boyfriend of ten years when she called me, distraught. Her boyfriend had repeatedly told her he would never marry her and wasn’t leaving her anything in his will.

Maria, 40, desperately wanted children. Her boyfriend of seven years moved away for work two years ago, and although h…