We use the word love easily.
“I love you.”
“I did it because I love you.”
“If you loved me, you would understand.”
But what happens when the behavior inside a relationship doesn’t match the word being used to describe it?
In What He Called Love, Vic Calhoun explores relationships, emotions, expectations, and the complicated difference between what people call love and what love actually looks like.
Many of our ideas about relationships begin long before our first serious romance.
We watch the adults around us. We absorb messages from movies, music, television, friends, and social media. Eventually, certain behaviors can become so familiar that we accept them as normal.
But familiar doesn’t necessarily mean healthy.
Sometimes what we’ve learned to call love is actually fear of being alone.
Sometimes it’s attachment.
Sometimes it’s control.
Sometimes it’s staying because we’ve invested too much time to leave.
And sometimes two people genuinely love one another but haven’t learned how to communicate that love in a healthy way.
That’s why relationships require more than feelings.
They require honesty, trust, communication, respect, accountability, and a willingness to see the other person as they truly are—not simply as we want them to be.
Relationship fiction gives readers a fascinating opportunity to explore these questions from a safe distance.
We can watch characters make choices and immediately recognize the red flags they don’t see. We can become frustrated when someone stays silent or makes the same mistake again.
Then a story can turn the mirror toward us.
Would we recognize those same patterns in our own lives?
What He Called Love invites readers to think beyond the words people use and pay attention to the actions behind them.
Because saying “I love you” is easy.
Understanding what love requires can be much harder.
As you read, you may find yourself asking one important question:
Is this really love—or is it simply what we’ve learned to call love?
Sometimes a fictional relationship can make us think differently about very real ones.
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