"How The Heart Breaks" is a walk in the author's personal experience with love and loss in both romantic and platonic relationships. These adaptations from her private journal entries maintain their intimate and vulnerable nature, sharing tales of lust and despair, just as they were felt. "How The Heart Breaks" takes the reader on an emotional ride through Lou's 6 "phases" of the heart, as it moves through a tumultuous relationship from beginning to end; Yearning, throbbing, falling, hurting, mourning, and breaking. Lex E. Lou delivers up-front not only the justice and pride that can come with walking away from a toxic relationship, but also the pure agonizing anxiety and woe that can forsake a tortured heart. In an ideal world, this book would help those experiencing heartache and loneliness to feel more connected, and assured that they will survive just as other have done.