A journal for the questions love leaves open
Three books to help you meet someone, trust again, and keep the love you find.
Fix Love explores why connection can feel harder to begin, why fear enters before trust, and what it takes to recover, repair, and rekindle lasting love.
Start with where you are
These are reading paths, not promises. Start with the question closest to yours.
The Fix Love book library
Understand the environment. Recognize the fear. Decide what the relationship needs next.
Modern Dating
Why Men and Women Have Stopped Dating, Why Apps Are Failing, and the Real Blueprint to Escape the Loneliness Crisis and Build a Relationship That Lasts
Modern dating feels stalled, confusing, or difficult to begin.
Fear & Trust
Why We Expect Lies, Cheating, Rejection, and Heartbreak Before Love Even Begins
The reader wants connection but expects betrayal, rejection, or humiliation.
Relationship Repair
Recover, Repair, and Rekindle Love in the Modern Age of Distraction and Disconnection
Love remains, but trust, attention, intimacy, or closeness has been damaged.
The Fix Love Journal
Research, lived perspective, and practical reflection kept distinct. No promise that every bond should survive.
A practical starting point for dating-app burnout, mixed expectations, and finding room for connection again.
A guide to identifying the problem, making accountability visible, and deciding whether both people are willing to rebuild.
Understanding fear of rejection, past betrayal, and the difference between protection and automatic withdrawal.
Evidence, dates, and definitions
Each figure has a named source and a limit. These facts describe specific measures, not every person's experience.
The share of U.S. adults not living with a spouse or partner in their household fell from 44% in 2019 to 42% in 2023. This measure does not include every committed relationship.
Read the related articlePew's 2023 report describes mixed online-dating experiences: 53% of people who had used dating sites or apps called their experience very or somewhat positive, while 46% called it negative.
Read the related articlePew reported that 25% of U.S. 40-year-olds had never married by 2021, compared with 6% in 1980. Some people marry after age 40.
Read the related articleAbout Pop Buchanan
Pop Buchanan is the author of the three Fix Love books and the founder of POPR Technologies Inc. His writing keeps personal framework, research, and relationship choices distinct.
One book title in a wider library
Fix Love is the home of the POPR Books relationship library by Pop Buchanan: The Dating Recession?, The Fear of Modern Dating and ReLove Relationships. ReLove Relationships is the title of one book in that library. Its three R's, Recover, Repair and Rekindle, are the author's own educational framework, not a clinical program. Fix Love, POPR Books and Pop Buchanan are not the same as, and are not affiliated with, any other business, website, app or service that uses the name ReLove or Relove, including sites in other countries. Official site: fixlove.net. Publisher: POPR Books, an imprint of POPR Technologies Inc., Manhattan, New York.
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