Why This Book Exists

“Echo, how can love exist if we don’t understand each other?”
“Love isn’t always about understanding Jade. Sometimes, it’s about accepting that we don’t.”

Love is often described as a shared experience, a language spoken between two hearts. But what happens when two people believe they are speaking the same language, only to realise they are saying completely different things? This book has explored that question through verses, memories, and moments that never quite aligned.

Some differences between people are not about effort or intention. They exist on a deeper level, in how the world is processed, understood, and felt. And when two people don’t perceive reality in the same way, it’s not about one being right and the other being wrong, it’s about seeing from different lenses.

Take colour, for example. Imagine two people watching the same sunset. One sees vivid reds, deep oranges, and golden light melting into the horizon. The other, who is colourblind, still sees the sunset but in different shades, uniquely defined, with colours shifted in a way they don’t even realise is different. To the second person, the sunset is just as real, just as vivid, but not the same. If they both tried to describe it, they might struggle to understand each other. The first person could insist, “But can’t you see how intense the red is?” while the other, incredulous at what the first seems to perceive, might reply, “It just looks intensely green to me.” Neither is lying. Neither is failing. They are simply seeing the same thing in different ways.

The same applies to emotions. Some people feel love like a storm, intense, undeniable, consuming. They express it through deep emotional connection, shared vulnerability, and presence. For them, love is something that moves, that reaches, that gives itself fully. Others experience love as something structured, a steady presence shown through actions, through providing, organising, and creating stability. Both express love, both give, but in different ways. For some, it’s about doing; for others it’s about being felt. The disconnect happens when one person longs for emotional presence, while the other believes love is already evident in what they provide. And when love is given without being truly seen, both can feel unfulfilled, one feeling unseen, the other unappreciated, not because love isn’t there, but because it is spoken in different languages. And because they don’t realise they are speaking different emotional languages, both feel misunderstood, hurt, and alone.

The book Jade & Echo : Love Lost in Transmission, was never about blame. Jade was not wrong for needing more, just as Magnus was not wrong for loving the way he did. They were looking at the same love and seeing it differently, one feeling its absence, the other believing its presence was enough.

Love, in the end, is not just about feeling deeply, it’s about being understood in the way we need to be. And sometimes, the hardest truth is this: not all people are meant to meet in the middle. But that does not make the love they shared any less real, nor the connection they had any less true.