It's about searching for love and commitment and security… and a fear of love and commitment and security.
Some are searching for love, others struggling with their careers.
But has the recession put paid to single girls searching for love beneath pastel covers?
A self-described "hopeless romantic," Ms. Ferdinand had been searching for love for years.
Many people wrote to me about how embarrassed they are to be searching for love online.
But the women, working under the guidance of the professional matchmaker April Beyer, are really searching for love themselves.
A rising divorce rate means that more older people are searching for love for a second or a third time.
Mr. Farrell wailed about searching for love and beauty at the most desperate and deviant fringes of society.
The Irish songwriter Luka Bloom strums resonant chords and often looks inward with songs about searching for love and truth.
Even the five Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice were searching for love in order to ward off financial peril.
All these characters are desperately searching for love, though, and at times they shout in anger and frustration.
