I didn't mean to write a handbook. I meant to survive dating. After one too many breakups that end without drama-but leave permanent emotional dents-Blair Hart starts doing what she does best: overthinking with structure. She begins writing rules. Rules about men. Rules about dating. Rules about how to love without disappearing inside someone else. Don't double-text. Don't ask where this is going. Be easy. Be agreeable. Be smaller. Each rule comes from a relationship that almost worked and a version of herself that learned to bend just enough to stay. Funny, sharp, and painfully self-aware, The True Love Handbook reads like a guide-until it doesn't. Because while Blair is busy cataloguing modern dating disasters, something else is happening in the background: the slow realization that the rules weren't protecting her at all. This isn't a love story. It's a pattern-recognition story. If you've ever edited yourself to be loved, laughed through confusion, or stayed longer than you should've-this one's for you.