Happy 5th Birthday! Here comes your baby sister!

Wise Readers,

Happy birthday to us!  LoveScience was launched on Valentine’s week five years ago.  Some of you have been with me since Day 1; others have joined more recently.  To all, I thank you for loving love, and how science can help us with it, as much as I do.

I have more news, though.  I’m pregnant.

Well, not physically.  But I’m partway through an act of creation for sure.  A book is in the works at long last!  And like a baby,  this one is due in about 9 months.  Unlike LoveScience, this book lays it all out there.

See, for an embarrassingly long time, my career went wonderfully and my dating life…didn’t.  The book reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of that era/epoch/seeming eternity.  More important, it details The Moment: the epiphany that transformed the way I lived my love life, and led me to verifiable, objective answers to all my questions.    

Questions like:

*Is finding love just luck? Is love worth it anyway—does it really make people happy?

*Why are the guys I’m not into, into me, and the guys I’m into, aren’t?  Am I doing something to attract men I don’t want and repel men I passionately desire?

*Am I asking for too much—being too unrealistic in my standards?  Or are my standards too low? 

*Where are the best places to meet Mr. Right? Or will he show up if I just stop looking? 

*How can I find out what I need to know about someone before getting too involved? 

*How long should I keep dating around?

*How soon is too soon for sex? 

*If I have to dump someone, what’s the one phrase that will make breaking up not quite so hard to do? 

*If I’m the dump-ee, how can I heal my own broken heart? 

*How can I get a stagnating relationship to move off dead-center and towards commitment? 

*What is the meaning of Life? 

Okay, the last one is beyond the scope of the book.   But The Moment really did lead to answers to the other ones.  

And that, LoveScience and Wise Readers, is what the book is all about: 10 steps to take you from I Wish to I Do.  

If you or someone you know is Single & Looking, I’ll be looking out for you.  Thanks for celebrating this new-baby step with me.  

Cheers,

Duana

Comments

[Christine]

My jaw dropped when I first read the "Im pregnant" haha.
I'm so excited for you!! Please keep us updated with your progress and if you need to do any polls :) I cannot WAIT for this to come out!

[Holly]

I admit when I first saw this, I too was surprised! I didn't realize at first that this referred to your blog's baby sis. Yay, I can't wait for the birth of your new book!!

[Helen Campbell]

So at this early stage of your book,you are experiencing chapters of nausea and sometimes leaning over the bowl with sickness as you nut out the rest if the first trimester.You will eventually feel the book starting to kick along....congratulations Duana.

[Vic]

Helen, when is first read "pregnant" I was starting to lean over the bowl!

I am very proud of my sweetheart. She is truly passionate about this topic.

[Adrienne]

Awesome and informative

[Duana C. Welch, Ph.D.]

Thank you all for your support! You're easing the morning sickness ;). The book is about 20% done, and starting to kick a bit!

[Christine]

Duana, I can't wait to read your book! I've been a big fan for a long time, and I'm now just getting back into LoveScience after a very busy year. Looking forward to reading, and recommending to all my friends! Hope you are well :-)

[Duana C. Welch, Ph.D.]

Christine, apart from a little morning sickness, I'm feeling wonderful ;). Good to see you here again, and thank you for your support!