The quest for love is an agonizingly difficult experience resulting in collective misery and disappointment which is internalized by individuals primarily women as personal failing. Eva says that what this book, the book that we're reading from seeks to claim is that the romantic agony that both of these women experience has changed its content, color and texture. She suggests that the individual navigates their way through complex social structures and institutions which frame the rules around and cultural rituals of love drawing on resources which they have personally accumulated. It is this social psychic trajectory which illusposites as the modern condition of love and experience that is shaped through inevitable suffering.