About When Love Drains You: A Survival Guide for Empaths and People-Pleasers Trapped in Toxic Relationships with Narcissists by Kristjana Imeri
A guide to breaking free from narcissistic love — and finding your way back to yourself.
You gave your all. You stayed through the confusion, the charm, the pain — hoping it would change, wondering if it was your fault and slowly forgetting who you were before it all began.
This book is for you.
When Love Drains You is a deeply honest and compassionate guide for those who have been in emotionally abusive or narcissistic relationships and are ready to see the truth, reclaim their power and begin healing — without the sugarcoating.
Inside, you’ll discover:
• Why you were drawn to someone who hurt you
• How manipulation hides behind what seems like love
• The truth about trauma bonds and why leaving feels impossible
• What it actually takes to emotionally detach — even when you’re still in love
• How to rebuild your sense of self, set boundaries and stop people-pleasing
• What real, peaceful love looks like — and how to trust yourself again
Told with raw clarity and grounded warmth, this book meets you where you are — confused, heartbroken, exhausted — and walks with you toward freedom and clarity.
You are not broken.
You are not too much.
You are just finally ready to come home to yourself.
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Author Bio:
Kristjana Imeri is a social worker with a lifelong fascination for human psychology, emotional patterns, and the hidden motivations that shape our lives. Armed with equal parts insight and empathy, she has a way of seeing the red flags in relationships—both her own and everyone else’s—long before they’re waving in the wind. This gift, paired with an intuitive understanding of why people repeat cycles that hurt them, fuels her mission: helping others break free from the patterns that keep them small.
She is the author of When Love Drains You – A Survival Guide for Empaths and People-Pleasers Trapped in Toxic Relationships with Narcissists and The Psychology of Self-Sabotage: Why You Get in Your Own Way – and How to Stop, two books that feel less like self-help and more like talking to a loving, no-nonsense friend who tells you the truth because she genuinely wants to see you thrive.
With a voice that’s warm yet direct, gentle yet unflinchingly honest, Kristjana writes for the people who are tired of surviving and finally ready to transform. Her work speaks to the parts of us that crave growth but fear change—the parts that need compassion, clarity, and someone who understands what it’s like to rebuild from the inside out.
Whether you’ve known her for five minutes or five chapters, reading her words tends to feel like meeting someone you didn’t realize you needed in your corner. And once you do, you’ll want to know everything she has to say.