The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World

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A compassionate guide to the mentality of dating and how to find care, love and meaningful connections in the digital age. Swiping, situationships, love bombing, ghosting, healing... Dating is hard. Why has making connections never felt so simple, yet keeping them has never been so complicated To understand why nearly half of us report having negative dating experiences, sex & dating journalist Rachel Thompson has spent the past decade - coinciding with the advent of dating apps - investigating how we seduce, perceive, and treat each other in this new era. Written for all of us, but with particular care for marginalised communities - from queer people to people of colour, people with mental health conditions and more - this book shares revealing facts on- why our odds of finding someone compatible are 1 in 562; what 'the spark' being little more than a neurobiological response indicates; how technology warps our communication, standards, and self-esteem. why we are becoming more sensitive to rejection; what real emotional availability looks like; Weaving anecdotes from Rachel's 15 years of dating, with expert research and interviews with real people, mental health experts and sociologists, this book offers comforting insights and actionable reflections. The Love Fix is a rallying cry for radical intimacy and a key resource for protecting your wellbeing, asserting healthy boundaries and communicating your needs. It is a path towards real connection with both others and yourself - offering a new vision for love beyond the algorithm.

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Required reading for every person who is dating right now. * Beth Ashley *
Rachel is a brilliant writer and has revolutionised conversations around love and modern dating. -- Shahed Ezaydi, Stylist
Rachel Thompson is such an important feminist voice and a spectacular writer. This book going to change how (and maybe even whether) we date. An extraordinary piece of work. -- Sofie Hagen, author of Happy Fat and Will I Ever Have Sex Again
Rachel Thompson is the best sex and dating writer since Candace Bushnell. The Love Fix is a companion guide to navigating the highs and lows of modern dating. This book helps us understand why we are the way we are and why we feel things so deeply in the realm of love. This book will validate your experiences and emotions and help you feel less alone in the perilous dating scene. * Gigi Engle, author of All The F*cking Mistakes *
Well never have all the answers or even all the questions we have about love fully explained, but its clear that the landscape of intimacy has changed and that we are simultaneously hyper-connected and disconnected. This book really unpacks and unpicks how these contextual shifts and adaptations have changed our social expectations when it comes to love, and has altered the course of how we meet, start and maintain loving connections. -- Kate Moyle, Psychosexual Therapist and author of The Science Of Sex

Author Bio

Rachel Thompson is a British author and journalist specialising in sex, dating, and relationships. Her first book Rough- How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Square Peg (Vintage) in August 2021. Stylist magazine called Rough "2021's most important book about sex". Rachel is the Features Editor at Mashable. She is a leading sex and relationships writer in the UK and has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, British Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The Telegraph, CNN, HuffPost, and many more.