Full disclosure here: my husband and I wrote this book.
We met on a big online dating site in 2009, then proceeded to hear from all kinds of people how online dating doesn’t work. But it does! In addition to the naysayers we saw more and more folks around us who were meeting online and were happy with the results. So, we concluded that there is a right and a wrong way to do this.
We started by writing a pretty straightforward book about the online dating process, then most of the way through realized that some other stuff really needed to come first. Namely, that stuff we called relationship readiness. So many people dive into online dating without really being ready for it and then wonder why they have a horrible experience. Not to mention, there are many who simply have a long history of unsuccessful relationships and would like to change that.