The Heart Was Not Built for the Fast Lane: Why Modern Romance Still Leaves Old-Fashioned Pain (The Coming Home Collection, Band 13) - Softcover

Patten, Gregg

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798185729991

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Modern romance has learned how to move quickly.

A glance. A message. A swipe. A weekend. A late-night conversation. A connection that begins before either person has had time to ask what is really happening.

There may be no promise, no plan, and no name for it. And still, something in the heart may begin to move.

The Heart Was Not Built for the Fast Lane is a quiet, emotionally honest book about the ache that follows when modern romance asks ancient hearts to behave as if closeness leaves no mark.

This is not a dating manual. It is not a rulebook for relationships. It is not written to shame desire, attraction, tenderness, or the longing to feel alive again.

It is written for the person who has tried to be casual and discovered that their heart did not sign the same agreement.

In these pages, Gregg Patten explores:

• Casual connections that still leave emotional marks
• The pain of almost being loved
• Why chemistry is not the same as connection
• The grief that comes without a name
• The cost of acting unbothered
• Why freedom can sometimes become avoidance
• How to slow the heart without hardening it

With calm reflection and plainspoken honesty, this book gives language to a kind of heartbreak many people are told they have no right to feel.

Old-fashioned pain is not always proof that you failed to become modern enough.
Sometimes it is proof that something true in you survived.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798185729991
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 175
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