Cupid on Trial: What We Learn About Love When Loving Gets Tough

by Brian Jory

If you’ve ever fallen in love, struggled with love, or faltered in love, Cupid on Trial will speak to your heart and change the way you feel about yourself and someone you love.

You will laugh, cry, scratch your head, even tremble as you eavesdrop in the bedrooms, kitchens, dance clubs, and coffee shops of Lovejoy—a fictional city where real couples are struggling with love in turbulence, relationships pushed to the brink, and situations they never saw coming. Like us, they are learning to love on the job and without an instruction manual. You will love some of these couples—they are heroes. Others you will not like at all. Love or hate, you will be educated and come away with a deeper understanding of what it means to love and be loved, including what it means to love yourself.

Cupid on Trial is a unique book of inspiration, insight, and romance—written in simple story form and easy to understand. One read and you will never look at love the same way again.

Dr. Brian Jory has been researching relationships, teaching about intimacy, and counseling couples for years. He wrote Cupid on Trial with the belief that it is never too early—or too late—for couples who love one another to plan a happy ending.

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 4, 2018

Reviews

[thea bre · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love you dr. brian jory

[Esraa Abdullah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cupid on Trial is a great book that talks about love and relationships and shows how complicated they are. I like how the writer talks not only about when men cheat on their wives, but also when the women cheat on their husbands. On Maria’s story, you can see how Maria is so selfish and do not think about Liam’s feelings. I like how the writer shows that cheating is wrong even when man does it because sometimes people only excuse the man when he cheats but not the woman. Whoever betrays, it is not okay. Moreover, I like when Liliana gives up her marriage to be happier and feel better about herself even though she thought about her children. Maybe it is even better for her children to not grow with parents who hate each other! Furthermore, I think Johanna’s decision to return to her husband is the best since Brandon not as Charlie. Brandon really loves Johanna. If she gets an annulment, she will be alone again and not trust anyone anymore. She will return to her old lifestyle. I really enjoyed this book and had a great time reading it.

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cupid on Trial: What We Learn about Love when Loving Gets Tough seems to defy genre. It’s an interconnected book of short stories, based on real experiences, all dealing with some aspect of relationship issues. It’s self-help, creative non-fiction, and I found it compelling, intriguing, enlightening, and helpful. The characters are very interesting. In the fictional town of Lovejoy the characters we meet deal with health problems, infidelity, infertility, trauma, and have to figure out ways to keep going and keep it together – like we all do. I like that the characters continue beyond their own stories. They tell more about their own story, and they interact with other characters as the book continues, making it seem more like real people in real life dealing with real problems. I feel like I know these people, and I can learn from their problems and through their stories learn more about myself.

[Elana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am currently taking FAM 230 Introduction to Family and Marriage with Dr. Jory. We were assigned this book in class and I’m glad to have read it. The different perspectives certainly lended itself to a nuanced way of experiencing love relationships. While I realize it was for the sake of remaining anonymous, the setting of Lovejoy was distracting and the inter connectedness of the characters was hard to follow at times. I think I would have preferred each set up as a short story independent of each other. The note it ended on was pretty brutal, important, but brutal.

[Holley Sawchuk · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was really neat how the author linked everyone together in the book. You learned about each couple that in some way were connected to one another.

[Khanaja Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMAZING BOOK PLEASE READ

[Maritza · Rating 1 out of 5]

The voice of the author claims to provide valuable insights on matters of love, from a PH D and therapist's experiences. This seemed very interesting. However, the content by no means delivers what this Book supposedly is about. This is just a simple novel with different characters and life-stories, FULL of drama and clichés and a pretentious and useless voice of an author 'providing' advice and useless questions at the end. No real analysis or insights or seriousness in the work.