Dating Disasters with Smiles

Dating is hard. Dating apps are harder. Dating with 243 full-color caricatures watching your romantic disasters unfold? At least now it's funny.

Welcome to Dating Disasters with Smiles - a wildly illustrated, laugh-out-loud journey through modern dating, relationships, romance, bad dates, dating apps, online dating, red flags, ghosting, texting disasters, first-date anxiety, relationship problems, breakups, situationships, flirting failures, dating expectations, and all the wonderfully ridiculous things people do while searching for love.

Featuring 243 beautiful full-color humorous caricatures, this is not an ordinary dating advice book. It is part comedy book, part relationship survival guide, part illustrated social commentary, and part emergency emotional first-aid kit for anyone who has ever stared at a phone and wondered:

"Why did I agree to this date?"

Inside, modern romance receives the treatment it has been asking for.

Meet dates who arrive looking twenty years older than their profile photos. Witness texting conversations that require forensic analysis. Explore the mysterious disappearance known as ghosting. Watch innocent first dates turn into job interviews, therapy sessions, financial negotiations, family investigations, and occasionally hostage situations involving a restaurant check.

And, naturally, meet pets who become relationship consultants, emotional-support supervisors, dating-profile critics, and - in one particularly ambitious case - upper management.

This book celebrates the funny side of dating without pretending relationships are simple.

Behind the jokes are recognizable truths about attraction, communication, compatibility, expectations, emotional intelligence, dating mistakes, relationship red flags, self-respect, confidence, boundaries, finding love, and surviving modern romance without losing either your standards or your sense of humor.

The 243 original-style full-color caricatures transform these dating disasters into a visual comedy experience. Every chapter brings new personalities, new romantic catastrophes, exaggerated expressions, ridiculous misunderstandings, and those painfully familiar moments when you laugh because the alternative would involve changing your phone number and moving to another state.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• dating humor and relationship humor
• funny books about love and romance
• modern dating and online dating comedy
• dating apps, first dates, bad dates, and dating fails
• relationship advice delivered with laughter
• red flags, ghosting, texting, flirting, and situationships
• funny illustrated books and colorful caricatures
• gifts for single women, girlfriends, friends, divorcees, and anyone returning to dating
• humorous observations about men, women, attraction, love, and relationships

Whether you are single, dating, newly divorced, happily partnered, unhappily swiping, recovering from a terrible date, or simply fascinated by the strange behavior of humans attempting romance, there is probably someone in these pages you will recognize.

Possibly your ex.

Possibly yourself.

Dating Disasters with Smiles does not promise to find you the perfect partner.

It promises something more achievable:

By the time your next date goes spectacularly wrong, you'll finally have the perfect chapter for it.

Because sometimes the difference between a dating disaster and a great story is simply enough time - and a very good caricature.