Whenever Helen Croydon mentions that marriage and kids just arent on her radar, everyone tells her that shell become one of old ladies with lots cats. But what, she asks, is so wrong with that? Cats dont have boring in-laws that take entire weekends and they dont soak the bathroom and scribble on walls either, do they?Just what is obsession with white weddings and 2.4 children anyway? For the first time in history, long-term relationships are no longer a necessity, but a luxury. Yet youre still deemed a failure if you dont The One, and worse if youre not even looking in the first place!Just because you dont want to share your home and bed with a significant other, it doesnt mean love is out of the question but perhaps. Like Helen, the shackles of commitment are not for you.Join her as she goes on a quest to find a more realistic approach to romance to fit with todays independent lifestyles and to discover what works and what doesnt along the way.Through hilarious anecdotes from her own love life to undercover missions , including a meeting for sex addicts, a wife-finding tour to Ukraine and staying in a polyamorous commune in The Highlands along with fascinating interviews with anthropologists, psychologists, swingers, sperm donor mothers and more, journalist Helen debunks the fairytale myth that finding true love is our only route to Utopia.