HYDERABAD: Preeti Shenoy believes that when it comes to relationships and love, we all are slaves of our heart, whether we are in our forties or our twenties. How often should you message a person who doesn’t respond to you? How important is sex in a relationship? Are we genetically programmed to stray? Does marriage take away your freedom? Is ‘friends with benefits’ a good option? How has Tinder changed Valentines Day? are some of the questions the book poses.
Says Preeti, “I am pretty sure this book will have the answers to above and all that the young are looking for.”
She adds, “Whether you are 18 or 45 or 68 you will find something in the book that is relevant for you.”
The book is a collection of pieces adapted from her popular column, in a national daily. “I thoroughly enjoyed the writing experience, as the column is on relationships, sex, communication between men and women, finding the perfect partner and anything else that you can think of on those lines. The inspiration for these columns comes from real life stories that many people have shared with me over the years. People seem to consider me a ‘relationship expert’. I get mails from complete strangers who share with me the most intimate details of their lives and ask me for my advice. Now here is the thing-when I am not directly involved in something, the perspective I have from my vantage point is so different from the one someone badly entangled in the situation has. So whenever I have offered my thoughts, they have always been graciously received. Through the stories that people shared with me, what I discovered was that when it comes to relationships and love, we all are slaves of our heart, whether we are in our forties or our twenties.”
The book is divided into seven sections. Finding the One is largely about finding love and deals with the dating stage; Getting Hitched is about marriage; When Things Go Wrong deals with break-ups and all things associated; On Men and Women focuses on gender differences; Let’s Talk deals with how differently men and women communicate; Three to Tango is about infidelity; and Between the Sheets is about sex. You can read them in any order you like-that is the beauty of a collection like this one.