The story is told entirely in the second person and includes sections of branching narrative based on audience selections.

[4] The show began its run at Edinburgh on 27 July,[5] and will continue at the Soho Theatre in London in September.

[citation needed] McGee developed the show in partnership with Melanie Frances, a mathematician and digital artist who helped develop a formula which included inputs such as the "relationship index", measures her time with each ex on a scale of one to 10, "how hard they made you laugh, the ratio of fun-to-misery and how good the sex was".

[10][11] The show was adapted into a book which was published in May 2021 by Penguin Random House Canada[12] and Hodder & Stougton[13] in the UK.

McGee also developed this concept into an audio series, The Cost of Love, an interview format podcast released concurrently with the book.