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Why I Wrote A Book About Love And Relationships

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Wilko van de Kamp
May 17, 2023
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An author, who wrote a book about travel hacking, and then another one about happiness at work, now comes forward with a book about love. I’m not denying it’s strange. Even more curious is tying the topic of Love to a book series about Freedom. Most people don’t associate love with freedom. More and more people choose, or so they say, to be single. They enjoy the freedom it brings them. Why this book?

Let’s go a few years back in time. In the fall of 2015 I released my book about Happiness, not expecting that within 24 hours from sharing “Happiness”, mine would be taken away. Sometimes what you really want doesn’t happen, and what you didn’t expect does. Depression and loneliness were on my horizon, together with doubt, fear and a whirlwind of other emotions. Within a week after my book came out there was good news, and bad. The good news: my book had immediately become a number one “hot release” on its first day. The bad? I was back on prescribed anti-depressants. What happened?

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