You have been told a story about what a complete life looks like. Artemis would like a word.

Find someone. Fall in love. Have sex. Get married. Build your life around that person. And if you don't want any of it?

Well, apparently you're supposed to spend the rest of your life explaining why.

Artemis has had several thousand years to consider the question, and she's reached a fairly simple conclusion: you do not owe anyone a life you never wanted.

The Subtle Art of Not Wanting to F*** is a funny, irreverent, and deeply affirming guide to asexuality, aromanticism, and the radical idea that romantic and sexual love are not prerequisites for a meaningful life.

Through the decidedly unimpressed perspective of the Greek goddess who famously asked Zeus to let her remain unmarried forever, this MythsUnderstood Guide takes aim at the assumptions we've built around sex, romance, partnership, marriage, and what it supposedly means to end up 'alone.'

But this isn't a book about living without love.

It's about recognizing how much love was there all along.

Friendship. Chosen family. Queerplatonic relationships. Community. Loyalty. The people who know you, choose you, show up for you, and matter enormously—even if nobody ever writes a love song about them.

With humor, mythology, and an archer's willingness to put an arrow through bad assumptions, Artemis explores the pressure to find 'the one,' the stigma surrounding asexual and aromantic identities, the hierarchy we've created between romantic and platonic relationships, coming out—or choosing not to—and the difficult work of building a life according to what you actually want instead of what you've been taught to want.

Written especially for readers on the asexual and aromantic spectrums while welcoming anyone who's ever questioned the traditional relationship script, this is a book about accepting yourself without treating your identity as a problem waiting to be solved.

You don't need to find your other half.

You were never half a person.

The Subtle Art of Not Wanting to F***

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