{"product_id":"the-energy-budget-of-love-9798295586767","title":"The Energy Budget of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Petchinsky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Apophis Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Diseases \u0026amp; Conditions - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove is often taught as limitless-but for disabled people, chronically ill people, neurodivergent people, and anyone living with fluctuating capacity, love has a cost. \u003cem\u003eThe Energy Budget of Love\u003c\/em\u003e introduces a radically honest framework for dating and relationships that honors physical, cognitive, and emotional limits without shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the myth that real love requires endurance, constant availability, or self-sacrifice. Instead, it teaches readers how to recognize their daily energy reality, communicate fatigue without guilt, avoid overextension, and choose partners who do not compete with their health. Through practical tools, reflective exercises, and disability-centered insight, this book reframes romance as something that should \u003cstrong\u003esustain\u003c\/strong\u003e, not deplete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for disabled readers first-not as an afterthought-\u003cem\u003eThe Energy Budget of Love\u003c\/em\u003e offers a language for setting boundaries, pacing intimacy, and building relationships that respect rest, recovery, and variability. It is not about giving less love. It is about giving love in ways that do not cost your body, mind, or future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf love has ever left you burned out, this book offers a different path: connection that fits inside your life, not love that consumes it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apophis Enterprises LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594188603543,"sku":"9798295586767","price":836.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798295586767.webp?v=1774985019","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-energy-budget-of-love-9798295586767","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}