“Love for life” had its heyday in the Middle Ages, when life expectancy was thirty to forty years. In those days, a love that lasted, say, fifteen years was more or less possible. An ideal love. Now that we live twice as long, thanks to vaccines and antibiotics, is it still possible to sustain the ideal of love for that long?

In this book Jorge Daniel Moreno puts forward a new formula for approaching romantic relationships: not to look a priori for a love for life, an ideal love, but to put our energy into living and savouring a real, possible love.

The book proposes to dismantle these preconceptions and to look at the other person not as an ideal complement, but as someone of flesh and blood, with qualities and faults, with whom one can obtain neither more nor less than a possible love: not an ideal one, but one with its feet on the ground — and why not, at times, rolling on it — seeking real satisfaction rather than an ideal that is forever slipping away and hard to reach.