The Romantic Ideal-The Highest Standard of Romance for a Man

Winner: 2025 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award

Winner: Atlas of Stories Award

With signature depth and insight, Gregory V. Diehl explores life as a man who embraces the boldest romantic ideals, a man who pursues romantic self-expression, self-determination, and self-actualization as his primary mission in a world so often set against it. His new book examines the hidden depths of masculine intimacy and passion, romantic compatibility, a man's unignorable sexual curiosity and burden, and the challenging quest to fall in love and bond with one's complementary soulmate in willing interdependence between the masculine and feminine.

A self-actualized man in romance seeks the influence found only in the right woman, the feminine force who brings color, beauty, and connection to his estranged life. The Romantic Ideal-The Highest Standard of Romance for a Man helps men identify mature and healthy ways to deal with these timeless trials of masculinity. For women, it offers eye-opening transparency about the quintessential masculine experience of sex, love, intimacy, and romantic aspirations beyond dating, flowers, and trying to get laid.

Includes a feminine foreword by registered psychotherapist Svetlana Sevak, MA, RP.