Unhooked Generation: The Truth About Why We're Still Single

Based on more than 100 interviews, the author examines the obstacles facing unattached men and women in an age when cell phones, text messages, e-mail, speed dating, and the Internet, conspire to create a false sense of endless options.

It??'s not you: The search for true love is more difficult now than ever before.& nbsp; To find out why and what to do about it, Jillian Straus conducted in-depth interviews with 100 single men and women in their 20s and 30s. She shares their eye-opening stories and her provocative findings in UNHOOKED GENERATION--the book that everyone, male or female, must read in order to understand why it is that they can???t seem to make their relationships last.& nbsp; Cell phones, text messages, e-mail, BlackBerries, speed dating, and internet dating all gives us the sense that we have endless options. A consumer sex revolution leaves us feeling that settling down is more like ???settling.???& nbsp; As the age of first marriage goes up, our level of expectation climbs right along with it, and we start subjecting prospective mates to ???the checklist.???& nbsp; From the collapse of courtship and the death of romance to the overriding media message that single life is sexy and married life is boring, we are a generation of men and women with mixed emotions about the very concept of commitment. Meet: Peter???he??'s had serious relationships with five women, and he says he could have married four of them. But he was always afraid something better might be around the corner. Leanne???Beautiful and successful, when she was younger marriage wasn???t a priority. Now in her thirties, she??'s starting to worry if she loses her youthful appearance she???ll become less ???marketable.??? Lisa???She finds out after a date that Sam was turned off to her because she seemed uncomfortable letting him pay for dinner. All of these people are partof the ???unhooked generation, ??? men and women who are searching for love in an uncommitted world.& nbsp; This book doesn???t just point out the problems, it will show you the secrets to effectively side-step them???once and for all. Rich with riveting personal stories, and leavened with wit and sharp observation, this is a book that clarifies this compelling phenomenon as no other book has. & nbsp;