Charles Stephen Fossett, III
Heartbrokers takes a rational approach to romantic love and intimate relationships. This book is both controversial and practical. Many individuals have attested to the dramatic effects the application of Heartbroker’s principles have had in their marriages. Heartbrokers covers practically all aspects of personal relationships. Specifically, Heartbrokers includes chapters on love addiction, sex, cheating, breaking up, closure, compromise, selfishness, and much more.
Heartbrokers also explores how technology is destroying our intimate relationships. Heartbrokers investigates non-conventional, yet rational, ways of responding when your lover is unfaithful, logical ways to approach sex, and how to gain closure to a previous breakup. Additionally, this book shows us how compromise eventually erodes an otherwise happy union.
The readers of Heartbrokers will learn to, not only feel love, but to think love also. Those who apply the principles contained in Heartbrokers will have the necessary tools to help them avoid most relationship pitfalls and possibly prolong their relationships.
Heartbrokers is more than a self-help book. Heartbrokers is a book that will prompt self-revelation and self-actualization.
Charles Fossett has a Master of Arts in Sociology. He is currently a Sociology professor at several Southern California colleges and universities. He has taught numerous Sociology courses, including Marriage, Sex and Intimate Relationships, Human Sexuality, Contemporary Social Problems, Power and Social Change, among others. Additionally, Charles has presented several scholarly papers at the American Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Association. He resides in Southern California with his two sons, Chuckie and Stephen, and his dog, Magnum.
Additionally, we do not honestly evaluate our reasons for entering into a marital relationship. We have adopted a “just do it” approach to mate selection. Let love take care of the rest. The heartbrokers tell us to let love take its course. What exactly is this “course?” No one, not even the heartbrokers, have been able to explain, clearly, sensibly and in detail, what the course of love is. What does it mean? Does love actually have a course? Where did this course come from? Can we replicate and realistically apply this course? Why hasn’t this course been effective for everyone who followed it?
This encompasses the central problem I have with the heartbrokers. The heartbrokers always seem to know the answers to all of our relationship problems. However, when it comes to the actual application of their solutions and the actual proof of their effectiveness, the heartbrokers come up short. The heartbrokers are not required to support their position with logical statistics. They offer solutions in the form of metaphors and clichés. However, I am not interested in hearing the cliché, “love will work everything out all right,” when I ask for help with specific problems in my relationship. I need to know exactly how love will work things out and exactly how I can apply these concepts so that I may duplicate it. Having a clear definition of the “work” of love is essential.
