Love Rules: How to Get the Relationship You Want

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"For those looking for a smart, no-bullshit, effective guide to finding love, look no further."Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity

"While Im not sure what Carrie Bradshaw would have made of todays new world of dating, I do know this: armed with Love Rules, she would have figured it all out in one season."Sarah Jessica Parker

Sheryl Sandberg empowered women to lean in. Arianna Huffington Encouraged them to thrive. Now, Joanna Coles guides them on their most important journey: finding love. Love Rules will enable you to identify what you want in a relationship, when you should pursue it, and how to find it.

Just as there is junk food, there is junk love. And like junk food, junk love is fast, convenient, attractively packaged, widely available, superficially tastyand 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 cupcakes and potato chips to find the produce aisle, where those relationships grounded in intimacy and trust livethe ones worth your investment. A diet book for romantic relationships, Love Rules first asks women to re-assess 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-pacedand often lonelydigital age.

In these pages leading media exec and former Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire Joanna Coles provides a series of simple guidelines for finding worthwhile love: fifteen ruleslove "hacks." She also explains how to use dating apps effectively to expand real world connections and how to avoid DADDdating attentiondeficit disorder, where the tantalizing promise of someone better appears to be only the next swipe away.

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Coles led Cosmo from sex tips and quizzes to its current era ofalso covering politics, the wage gap, domestic violence and gun control. Correspondingly, her book is fun, unflinchingly honest andincredibly serious.... Theres no finger-wagging or single-shaming here. Washington Post At long last, a book that provides a concrete, easy-to-navigate road map to finding loveand does so with all the whip-smart insight, humor, and wit youd expect from Joanna Coles. Love Rules is going to have a huge impact on so many people. Arianna Huffington Generally, you never want to take emotional advice from a British person. Joanna Coles is the very rare exception to that rule. John Oliver For those looking for a smart, no-bullshit, effective guide to finding love, look no further. Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity While Im not sure what Carrie Bradshaw would have made of todays new world of dating, I do know this: armed with Love Rules, she would have figured it all out in one season. Sarah Jessica Parker

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Joanna Coles is the chief content officer of Hearst Magazines and serves on the board of Snap Inc. She is the executive producer of The Bold Type on Freeform, a scripted show inspired by her life as a magazine editor, and starred in the docuseries So Cosmo on E!. Born in the United Kingdom, Coles was the New York correspondent for the Guardian and the Times of London before joining Hearst as editor in chief of Marie Claire. She was editor in chief of Cosmopolitan from 2012 to 2016. She lives in New York.