Publisher's Synopsis
A diet book for finding love from a driving force in the world of women's magazines--a no-nonsense guide that offers much-needed advice for finding meaningful relationships in today's complicated romantic landscapeJust as there is junk food, there is junk love. And like junk food, junk love is fast, convenient, attractively packaged, widely available, superficially tasty, and leaves you hungering for more. And both junk food and junk love require enormous amounts of willpower to resist.Social media and online dating sites have become the supermarkets of our relationship lives. You have to wade through rows of snack cakes and bags of chips to find the produce aisle, where those relationships grounded in intimacy and trust live--the ones worth your investment. A diet book for romantic relationships, Love Rules first asks women to reassess the way they think about their relationships, and then helps them use that newfound awareness to navigate their love lives more successfully in this very modern, fast-paced, and often incredibly lonely digital age.In these pages, media executive and former Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire Joanna Coles provides a series of simple guidelines for finding worthwhile love: fifteen rules--love "hacks" informed by her years working at women's magazines. These rules have also been shaped by extensive consultation with psychologists, therapists, anthropologists, doctors, college professors, and counselors, as well as conversations with the many women she has worked with in the media world.With these love hacks at your disposal, Love Rules will enable you to identify what you want in a relationship, when you should pursue it, and how to find it.
