Love isn’t something you find. It’s something you build.
A divorce lawyer takes love to trial — and offers a different way to think about the most important relationship in your life.
A new book by George LeeOn love. On choice. On beginning again.CanAsia Press · 2026
- years listening to marriages fall apart
- 25+
- chapters
- 10
- Guernica Prize in Literary Fiction
- 2021
What if we’ve been asking the wrong question about love?
Not a book about divorce. A book about love.
After twenty-five years listening to marriages fall apart, divorce lawyer George Lee asks a different question: What if the biggest mistake we make about love happens long before anyone files for divorce?
The Book
The fairy tale got it backward.
Not one perfect kiss. A thousand imperfect choices.
This is not a book about divorce. It is a book about love — what it is, what it is not, and how two imperfect people can build something that lasts.
The fairy tale ends at the kiss. Real life begins there. It asks us to choose an imperfect person, on ordinary days as well as extraordinary ones — and to keep learning how to love them.
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience and practical stories, George Lee looks beyond happily-ever-after to the daily work of connection. Not finding someone without flaws. Building something together, flaws and all.
- 01
What does love really mean?
- 02
Why do good marriages unravel?
- 03
How do we build lasting connection?
Look inside
Inside the Book
Ten chapters. A different kind of love story.
From the first illusion to a renewed sense of purpose.
- Chapter 101
The Sweet Illusion
Love Is Not What You Believe It Is
- Chapter 202
The Happily Ever After Trap
Love Has an Expiration Date
- Chapter 303
Sex Lies About Love
Desire Is Not Devotion
- Chapter 404
Why Money Feels Like Love
A Heart Has a Price Tag
- Chapter 505
The Faithful Myth
Do Good People Cheat?
- Chapter 606
Heartspan
Love Gets Lost in Translation
- Chapter 707
Love’s Balance Sheet
Love Is Spent Before It Dies
- Chapter 808
Broken-Mirror Effect
You Cannot Mend a Broken Heart
- Chapter 909
When You Kiss the Frog Goodbye
Crisis Reveals Character
- Chapter 1010
What Marriage Is Really For
Love Thrives on Renewal of Purpose
Each chapter ends with a Kiss the Frog Practice.
From the pages of Kiss the Frog
The fairy tale got it backward. You don’t kiss the frog once. You kiss the frog every day. The kiss is the skill. The kiss is the choice.
This book will not tell you how to find love. It will tell you how to make it.
Kiss the Frog · George Lee
Ready to look at love differently?
A Divorce Lawyer Takes Love to Trial
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