True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life

A Note from the Author

If you’ve considering this book, it’s likely that you’re searching for true love. Your desire for marriage may be strong, even feel like a preoccupation that you can’t seem to shake. You might be sick and tired of being single and alone, watching your friends get knocked off, one by one, into the world of love while you feel more and more isolated. Maybe you found someone you thought was “the one,” only to have your heart broken and your hopes shattered, alone once again. In a world that seems to cater to couples and families, sitting at a table for one is the last place you want to be.

But the ironic thing about finding true love is that it must start at a table for one. The phrase “true love dates” means that before any significant relationship comes along, you must commit to a series of three stages of dating: inward, outward, and upward. Believe it or not, these stages begin with one very important person you may have overlooked: yourself.

—Debra Fileta, M.A., LPC