Choosing a lover has become easy—just swipe right on a dating app.

But most modern romances don’t survive.

So how do you make sure your relationship does?

Combining powerful storytelling with deep philosophical truths, bestselling author Shubha Vilas’s 5.5 Ways to Lasting Relationships shares relationship advice for the modern age.

Why 5.5 ways though? The answer is hidden in the captivating stories of fabled couples from our epics whose love stood the test of time. Nala and Damayanti, Krishna and Rukmini, Shakuntala and Dushyanta, Udayana and Vasavadatta, Satyavan and Savitri, Draupadi and the five Pandava brothers provide tales of adventure, commitment, and love cemented in unconditional trust, compassion, and forgiveness.

Through these celebrated pairs and their relationships, the author provides solutions to everyday relationship problems. He offers readers a key for each of the stories to ponder over, absorb, and provides methods to put into practice.

At a time when people are losing faith in the existence of true love, six classic love stories offer ways to make your new-age relationship outlast the clock.