I Will Love You As Long As Life Lets Me is not a self-help book. Self-help implies something is broken. Nothing here is broken. Everything here is working exactly as it should — beautifully, chaotically, and often against our best intentions.

This is a book about the gap between the promise and the reality. Between "I will love you as long as you let me" and "I don't see this going anywhere." Between the cathedral you built in your head for someone and the rubble you're standing in now, wondering when you even had the time to build it. I Will Love You As Long As Life Lets Me is for the person who has ever grieved something they couldn't fully explain to anyone else. For the person who felt too much about something that "wasn't even really a thing." For the person who keeps falling in love despite the evidence, because they have decided — correctly — that the alternative is worse.

This book will not tell you how to protect yourself from love.

It will remind you why you never wanted to.