Summary: We have a way that we attached to romantic partners. Finding a partner that is compatible with our attachment type makes those attachments more secure, longer lasting, and more fulfilling. Oriented toward single adults more than couples.
I am fascinated by science books about human relationships and behavior. One of the best I have read is Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me. You can get the point by the title, and nearly two years after I read it, I still frequently bring it up in conversation. Another interesting and more general book like this is Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Book of this genre are best when they really are based in science, but they attempt to make the science real in lay person terms and ideas. Mary Roach, who wrote Bonk, takes the tack of writing about the science through her own discovery. She is a very present character in her books. The authors of Mistakes Were Made were more traditional science writers. They referenced studies and gave lots of examples but they were mostly writing from as academic narrators.
Some books get to science based or take a fairly simple idea and run it into the ground far past the attention spans of most readers (The Narcissism Epidemic I think fell into this trap.) But ever since the original Freakenomics and some of Chris Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell’s books became popular, this style of science/self-help/popular non-fiction came out, there have been many authors that are trying to find the secret to writing good books, that are actually useful and based in real science and understandable.
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