This is a book about how you can grow up in a village surrounded by livestock, then move to the city to meet someone who first encountered a real cow at 26.

But it isn’t a book about cows.

It’s about the intricate tapestry of socialization and its impact on our adult selves as lovers.

It might seem like a boy-meets-girl book at first glance but it delves deeper, documenting couple conflicts and tracing them back to their childhood origins.

Within these pages, you'll find 20 intimate stories of real couples recounting their most (in)significant conflicts. The stories reveal how our past shapes us and expose our emotional baggage, they show how our upbringing influences our romantic choices and how we navigate conflict.

In exposing these connections, it offers a chance to see, and maybe laugh at, ourselves.