STRANDED

New Book · Karmen Michael Smith · 2025

Stranded by Karmen Michael Smith

STRANDED

Why Modern Dating Is Rigged And How to Beat the Game
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01

Modern dating isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed — to keep you searching, circling, and never quite arriving.

02

The apps, the algorithms, the advice — all of it is built to sustain the search, not end it.

03

You are not the problem. The system is. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

NAMED

"Fed-up is when your spirit
stages a protest.
This book is for that moment."

— Karmen Michael Smith

What This Book Does

A diagnosis.
And a direction.

Names the System

How modern dating was designed, who benefits from your confusion, and why the standard advice keeps failing you. Not because you're broken — because the system is working against you.

Diagnoses the Pattern

The specific loops, cycles, and traps that keep people circling. The psychological architecture underneath them. Named, clearly, for the first time.

Gives the Framework

Practical, philosophical, and spiritual tools to move differently. Not rules. A new way of seeing that changes every decision going forward.

Tells the Truth

With the moral clarity of someone who has studied human behavior theologically, culturally, and personally. No shortcuts. No false hope. Just truth.

Karmen Michael Smith

About the Author

KARMEN MICHAEL SMITH

Public theologian, cultural strategist, and author. Inaugural Director of the Social Justice Center at Union Theological Seminary. Federal DEI Appointee under the Biden-Harris Administration. Inductee, Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College. Creator of the Cine-Sermon. Founder of Poor Culture and Foragé Atelier.

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Author

Karmen Michael Smith

Year

2025

Category

Relationships · Culture · Systems