Goodreads asked Linda Carroll:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Linda Carroll I was on an airplane going to give a talk about love and I was reading a "Dear Abby" type column. The question said, "I am not in love with my husband any more. What should I do," The answer was "Get a lawyer and begin the divorce". I was so distressed about this I began to change my speech. I wrote down"Love has many cycles and in a long term relationship there are many winters, times of fog and rain, an occasional tornado and many days of blah weather. None of them mean that spring and summer are lost, everything moves in cycles." When I said it later to the audience a woman asked me "What are the cycles", and they seemed so obvious that I answered that there were five.
I think the Five Cycles were in what I was teaching.but I had never called them cycles or identified them as five before that day.

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