Welcome to the World of Wretched Love

We are romance junkies and we hope you are too. We come in many stripes–some of us prefer happy endings while others prefer daggers to the heart. The inspiration for this site is manifold yet singular. Many of the contributors to this site have spent far too much time agonizing over romantic tropes. Some of them have created elaborate excel sheets to bring order to the relationships in books, TV, and films.

Last February, The New Yorker podcast Critics at Large had a great episode entitled “The Painful Pleasure of ‘Wretched Love'” and that is the inspiration for our blog’s name. Because every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough, right?