Successful Sydney-based sportswriter Jesse Fink was at the height of his professional career when his wife of 10 years left him and walked into the arms of a new man. In one fell swoop he lost his best friend, his soulmate, his family, his identity. His wife's new lover even got his dog. What followed was a journey of emotional salvation, personal reinvention and sexual adventuring that took him from contemplating cutting his wrists to sleeping with hundreds of women. Fink's search for love and pleasure saw him jump headlong into the freewheeling but sometimes dangerous world of online dating. He visited brothels and massage parlours. He crossed the Pacific for doomed affairs with a burlesque dancer and a high-class escort. He disastrously moved in - sight unseen - with his high-school dream girl, a woman he hadn't spoken to for 25 years but reunited with on Facebook. He ran off to Hollywood to connect with a beautiful woman he sparked with online and found himself in the kitchen of the real-life Bridget Jones. He even tried, with spectacular inefficacy, to win back his ex-wife. And he managed to get his heart broken all over again by a brilliant but turbulent young artist. With remarkable frankness, Fink opens up about his complicity in the failure of his marriage and his battles with OCD, a malignant illness that did its best to sabotage love whenever it came into his life. He shares it all - the good, the bad and the ugly - and along the way questions the wisdom of traditional marriage and monogamy in the digital age, arguing that having so much choice about who we might date has made it more difficult for people to commit to new relationships or to persevere in the ones they are already in. In this vortex of disconnected love, Fink argues, we have become less tolerant of faults and weaknesses, more demanding of perfection, and cling on to the notion that our ideal partner can be found through the click of a button. As he discovers the hard way, only fools rush in.