The Love Gap
Books | Family & Relationships / Dating
3.9
Jenna Birch
A research-based guide to navigating the newest dating phenomenon--"the love gap"--and a trailblazing action plan to help smart, confident, career-driven women find (and keep) their match. For a rising generation young women, the sky is the limit. Women can be anything and have everything. They are outpacing their male peers in higher education and earning the corner office at work. Smart, driven, assertive women are succeeding at just about everything they do--except romance. Why are so many men afraid to date smart women? Modern men claim to want smarts, success, and independence in romantic partners. Or so says the data collected by scientists and dating websites. If that's the case, why are so many independent, successful women winning in life, but losing in love? Journalist Jenna Birch has finally named the perplexing reason: "the love gap"--or that confusing rift between who men say they want to date and who they actually commit to. Backed by extensive data, research, in-depth interviews with experts and real-life relationship stories, The Love Gap is the first book to explore the most talked-about dating trend today. The guide also establishes a new framework for navigating modern relationships, and the tricky new gender dynamics that impact them. Women can, and should, have it all without settling.
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Author
Jenna Birch
Pages
304
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Published Date
2018-01-23
ISBN
1478920033 9781478920038
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"Interesting research! While I didn’t agree with her suggestions for how to go about ‘finding/waiting for/keeping’ a guy (🙄 it honestly felt a bit too much like “if you want to keep a guy at any cost do this”), the way she contextualized and sorted her research was extremely helpful.<br/><br/>Having a way to label almost-relationships and cut through the uncertainty by positioning them against Maslow’s hierarchy was really really beneficial. I can also see some of my negative patterns and though she idolizes the female in this book “you, EG, are perfect the way you are” (hmmm... I can be flighty and not ready either!) it is actually a must read if you are looking to self actualize, and become less frantic about dating or finding a key partner, and knowing early on whether or not to pursue someone because of traits, communication styles and tendencies.<br/><br/>As someone who was out of the dating world for the past 6 years and is wading back in, I feel pretty great knowing how to put everything in context, and being able to understand human nature a little better and realize it really isn’t me, it’s their timing, is great. Good read."
Dana Reinert