This is a serious essay, a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on what has gone wrong with love and marriage in the lives of individuals and in society as a whole.Extraordinarily well written popular psychology. . . . A probing account of contemporary pain.A witty, ironic, poetic, deeply intelligent and iconoclastic book about love . . . serious, wise and ultimately hopeful.We live in an age when love and power have become virtually interchangeable.