Love Expanded

£18.99

‘Love Expanded’ is not a book about suffering, though the challenges queer people face are everywhere and real. Quietly radical, it is a guide for what non-traditional relationships can look like in all their myriad forms, and a source of advice from aromantic and asexual people on how to form them. It’s about opening up opportunities for expanded love, for everyone. It’s for the sake of single people struggling to own a home, for those who feel that friendship is less prominent in their lives than they would like; for people who want more social support for lives lived happily single. It’s about new languages for consent for better, clearer communication; it’s about different approaches to dating that focus less on seeking instant ‘chemistry’ and more on building friendships.

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A boundary-pushing book that redefines how we love.What if romantic love wasn’t the only kind we prioritised? What would happen if we put the same emphasis on platonic love? How would we understand and relate to each other? How would we change?In this quietly radical book, Wren Burke makes a case for breaking out of our outdated social and cultural conventions that tell us romance alone will bring us true happiness. By shifting our focus to love all its manifestations, Love Expanded offers us a way through the loneliness epidemic: one that prioritises community and companionship over the search for ‘the one’.This illuminating book is for anyone who wants deeper, more authentic connections; for those who crave partnership but not romance; for single people in a world which benefits couples. It offers us new languages for consent that take apart old-fashioned scripts in favour of better, clearer communication, and different approaches to dating that focus less on seeking instant attraction and more on building friendships.You don’t need a romantic partner to be complete; you’re already whole.

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Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 cm
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Cover

Hardback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

306.7 (edition:23)

Readership

College – higher education / Code: F

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