The Art of Chasing Shadows Behind a Wedding Ring

By Vecendyl Dotillos Monleon

The Art of Chasing Shadows Behind a Wedding Ring
When Love Feels Real... But It Was Never Truly Yours

What happens when your heart falls for someone who was never fully available to love you back?

Sometimes the most painful relationships are not the ones that end dramatically. They are the ones who live in the shadows where affection feels real, hope stays alive, and your heart keeps waiting for a love that can never truly be yours.

In The Art of Chasing Shadows Behind a Wedding Ring, Vecendyl D. Monleon takes readers on a deeply emotional journey through unattainable love, emotional attachment, heartbreak, and self-discovery.

Through poetic prose, psychological insight, and raw reflection, this powerful book explores:

Why do we become attached to emotionally unavailable peopleThe addictive cycle of almost-loveThe emotional cost of waiting to be chosenHow fantasy can feel safer than realityThe healing process of letting go and reclaiming your self-worth

If you have ever:

Loved someone who belonged to someone elseWaited for a relationship that never fully arrivedMistaken attention for loveLost yourself trying to be enoughNeeded the courage to choose peace over possibility

This book will feel like it was written for you.

More than a book about heartbreak, this is a guide to emotional awakening. It is a reminder that real love does not hide, divide, or leave you starving for certainty.

You were never meant to spend your life chasing shadows, holding onto fragments, or searching for love in places where you were only partially seen. You were meant to experience a love that does not hide, hesitate, or leave you questioning your worth.

You were meant to be chosen openly, loved honestly, and embraced completely, not as a secret, not as a possibility, but as someone worthy of a love that feels safe, certain, and whole.

For readers who found meaning in Attached, The Mountain Is You, and The Strength in Our Scars, this book offers a deeply emotional journey through attachment, self-discovery, heartbreak, healing, and the courage to return to yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H21GXLQR
• ISBN13: 9798197095299
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"