Description

Love is often treated as the foundation of relationships, morality, and meaning itself—yet it resists definition and survives contradiction.

In There Is No Such Thing as Love, Manas Swain offers a rigorous, unsentimental analysis of love as a cultural, psychological, and social construct rather than an independent truth. Drawing from human behavior, social psychology, philosophy, and lived reality, the book examines why love is so difficult to define, why suffering is often mistaken for depth, and how power, dependency, and belief are frequently disguised as affection.

This is not a romance, memoir, or self-help guide. It is an analytical work that questions inherited narratives and examines relationships as they actually function rather than how they are idealized.

The book also explores what remains when the myth of love is removed: clearer boundaries, greater accountability, deliberate connection, and meaning built on choice rather than illusion.

Written in a direct, disciplined voice, this book is for readers ready to think critically about one of the most protected ideas in modern culture.