Rules of Everything

THE RULES OF LOVE

It was only ever a matter of time before I put together the countless Rules I’d observed over the years when it came to love. I’d been through an unpleasant divorce (what other kind is there?) and was lucky enough to follow it with a second, very successful marriage. I brought to that second marriage many Rules I’d learnt first time round, along with many more I’d observed other people follow.13

However, my wife is far from the only person I love. There’s my children, my wider family, my friends ... The bulk of the book needed to be about romantic love but I wanted to do justice to those other aspects of love too. When we first fall in love it can feel as if we’re in a bubble, but before long normal life reasserts itself, ...