The red flags were there from day one. You just couldn't read them.

From Joseph W. South, author of the landmark Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man, comes the guide to everything men overlook with women.

This was the first book I wrote after Practical Female Psychology. Readers kept telling me the same thing: the theory changed how I see women — now show me what to do with it. So I did. The female archetypes from the original book get the full working treatment here: the Adventuress, the Materialista, and the Good Girl, and how to tell them apart fast, in the real world, before you're invested.

Because here's the truth about the woman who blindsided you. The signs were there. You didn't miss them because you're a fool — you missed them because nobody ever taught you what to screen for.

You'll learn to catch the Early Frame Announcement, the tell she gives from the very first encounter about who she is and how she'll treat you. You'll learn to read the red flags early and avoid the wrong woman before you're trapped. You'll learn why attraction fades when she slides from lover to mother, how to kill the neediness and desperation that repel women, how to hold your frame when she tests you, and how to handle attraction at work without wrecking your career.

If your best efforts with women keep backfiring while other men seem to do it effortlessly, you're not missing effort. You're missing the map.

Fair warning: once you can read the signs, you can't unsee them. And you won't change your circumstances until you can see what's actually happening.

Stop guessing. Start reading her.