Goodreads asked Duana Welch:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Duana Welch From my train-wreck of a love life! Seriously, the idea came to me more than 15 years ago when I went through a break-up that even chocolate couldn't console. I was (am) a hard-core nerd, getting a doctorate in research psychology, and it struck me that a) my education was not doing a thing to save me from heartbreak, and b) I wasn't a love researcher, but maybe I should look around and see whether there were other social science nerds who were.

And there were...lots of them. Decades of excellent science existed which, had I only known and applied it, could have saved me so much heartache and led to the loving, lifelong relationship I yearned for.

It worked for me--I'm very happily wed to the love of my life, and we are celebrating seven years of marriage this month. It worked for my clients and for my college students and for my blog readers. And so the idea of the book was born, to use not only heart and soul, but evidence, to shore up other men and women as they embark on the most important task of our adult lives: finding and keeping The One.

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