September 2024
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“Love yourself” is a relatively new cultural concept, which now seems everywhere in popular culture as life advice. This idea is often applied to romantic relationships: you must learn to love yourself before you can truly love or be loved. There’s rarely an actual reason given for this meme, since memes are always taken as
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Are “emotional affairs”….affairs?
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When she was only 14, Jane Austen wrote a novel called Love and Freindship (that’s right, she misspelled it), satirizing the tendency of her time to romanticize both attachments as passionate, “undying love.” In our own time and culture, romantic love is assumed to be the basis for marriage, so it makes sense that we
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On the other hand…I believe there are many people who are successful in love relationships specifically because they DO fall in love only when the love object loves them. Does this completely contradict the previous blog post? Not really, because there’s a huge difference between CONSCIOUSLY attempting to control your passions and doing it without
Susan Ostrov 