A message for hopeless romantics, romantic idealists, and developing men and women seeking to discover the depths of their masculine and feminine qualities.

With signature depth and insight, Gregory V. Diehl explores what it means to live as a man who embraces the boldest romantic ideals, a man who pursues romantic self-expression, self-determination, and self-actualization as life’s most meaningful undertaking in a world set against it. His new book reveals the hidden depths of masculine intimacy and passion, romantic compatibility, men’s unignorable sexual burden, and the challenging quest to fall in love and bond with one’s complementary soulmate for life in a state of willing interdependence between the masculine and feminine.

A self-actualized man in romance seeks the influence he finds only in the right woman, the feminine force who brings color and beauty to his alienated life. The Romantic Ideal—The Highest Standard of Romance for a Man helps men find mature and healthy ways to deal with the trials of the timeless masculine experience. For women, it offers enlightening transparency about the masculine perspective on sex, love, intimacy, and all forms of romantic ambitions beyond flowers, dates, and trying to get laid.

Includes a feminine foreword by registered psychotherapist Svetlana Sevak.