Drawing on extensive academic research, this book presents a range of concepts or 'stories' of love and explains how understanding what we and our partners mean by love can profoundly improve and deepen our relationships.

When you think of love, what comes into your head? Cupid's arrow or trusting support? Committed communication or a transformative adventure? Simon Watts looks at the science behind the emotion and isolates the expectations that shape our experience of love. From this he identifies a number of common love stories and explores how we understand love and how this knowledge feeds into our relationships. Finally, the book looks at how we can use this knowledge to avoid the common romantic pitfalls and provides advice for how to make relationships work by understanding both our own love stories, and those of our partners.