There is no way that special love can ever work. No one person can be your source of happiness.

All efforts to clutch and smother the people in our lives in order to fill our own need for love and attention inevitably end up working against those relationships. So what can you do to change this? One word: Release.

‘Maybe if you’re not married by the age of thirty and I’m not married either we could have a pact.’ There’s simply nothing more detrimental to romance than neediness. It’s like the turning off of a mains supply. It shuts the whole thing down.