The memoir "Unwilling to Love" offers a rare look into the entire span of an individual’s experience of knowing love, and of those who showed him the way. Along with its stories, it intersperses a reckoning of all the consequential moments and encourages you to consider yours.

The book begins with the need to know the child that built you, as love has a capacity that is formed early in life, and explores how the pain of endings are the acquired foundation of a better outlook on future love. "Unwilling to Love" is a powerfully personal book that shares the innocence and unpredictability of love's complex, enduring path from childhood through the author’s ever-challenging adult years.

The book’s stories are a bared-soul journey where playground puppy-loves prove surprisingly durable, cherished deep loves must come to an end, of following your love to new cities, that the myth of soulmates is carefully entered, and that thoughts of marriage and children can be destroyed in a night and a day. Why tell of these honored scars of love and heartbreak—to show the courage it takes to continue on and love again.

The confounding nature of love left the author wondering—am I unwilling to love? That you share an intrigue for the depths of love and its elusive journey, its primal course that conjures without regard for your wishes, gives each of us cause to discover and embrace our manner of it. It will take some emotional introspection to expose and respect the core of us it represents.

In reading, you’ll come to find that all the little steps shaping love’s substance are many, ongoing, and deep. As you read into the self-discovery of these engaging stories, and recall your own, you’ll come to understand that honesty about yourself and respect for another’s needs are necessary to know true compatibility exists—it’s all about getting a better grasp on this thing we call love.