The Prelude: Red Flags to Watch for Before Getting Too Attached

**Love Shouldn’t Feel Like This: The Prelude** Sometimes the red flags are there long before our hearts are ready to call them red flags. *The Prelude: Red Flags to Watch for Before You Get Attached* is a short, powerful companion guide designed to help you recognize unhealthy relationship patterns earlier, before chemistry, hope, or emotional attachment makes them harder to see. Inside, you’ll explore behaviors and warning signs that are easy to dismiss in the beginning, learn what deserves a closer look, and give yourself permission to trust what you’re noticing. This isn’t about becoming afraid of love. It’s about learning to enter it with your eyes open. Whether you’re dating, starting over, or simply trying to understand patterns from your past, *The Prelude* gives you a place to begin. **Start before the attachment. Notice what you might otherwise explain away.**