The Love Bible


(working title)

This book will help you find the love of your life!

 

Are you single and doubtful that you’ll ever find real happiness in love? Or in a troubled relationship and doubting what to do? Do you just never seem to run into that loving, caring soulmate? Have you been in and out of relationships that just don’t seem to work? Are the dynamics of being rejected and/or rejecting familiar to you? Is your only reference of a happy relationship watching other people’s lives? Are you wondering why even your emotionally deficit, happily married neighbour seems to nail it better than you do? Have you squandered weeks, months or even years on unsuitable partners? Are you fed up with self-help books on love telling you to (pretend to) be more independent, confident, aloof, or advising you to be meaner, gentler, to use better pick-up lines, to change? If more than one of the above applies to you, this is your book!

 

This book will show you that in fact, you don’t need to change at all. You just haven’t found the right person.

 

And that right person is out there already. While you are reading this, or doing groceries, sleeping, having lunch with friends, there is someone beneath this same sky with whom you have every potential to be extremely happy. This book will help you find that someone.

 

Instead of taking examples from functional relationships to patch a troubled one – as many books on this subject and couple therapists tend to do – this book will inspire you to become that example yourself, starting with that first, imperative, often overlooked gateway: finding someone truly suitable.

 

But what is “suitable” to you personally? Many of us who aren’t presently in a loving relationship find this remarkably difficult to answer. From a young age, we’ve been taught to read and write, do maths and ride bicycles, but when it comes to matters of the heart, most of us have been badly educated, if at all. We grow up with a vague notion of what happy love should look like, but not an inkling of how to realize this for ourselves.

 

Digging into an invaluable deposit of wisdom by renowned psychologists, therapists, marriage counsellors, philosophers and sociologists, this book sheds a refreshing new light on what love is, and what it is not. It will inspire you to explore your own, innermost core, and examine misconceptions many of us have about our identities and needs. Guiding you along with eye-opening tests and enthusing thought-experiments, it will show you that the path to love isn’t as rocky as is often thought – it’s merely a matter of seeing and embracing what is already there.

 

The Love Bible will leave you with a far better understanding of what happy love looks like, and what it looks like for you personally. It will offer practical tips on how and where to find it, and what to do once you succeed. Rejections will no longer haunt you; you will feel more confident and less fearful. Even if you’re currently in a troubled relationship, this book’s vast supply of insights and hands-on experiments will guide you along your path ahead and help you with difficult decisions.

 

Written with humour and zest, this book has a profound message for all who read it