romantic love
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After seeing the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, I hauled out my old Bob Dylan CDs and listened to my way-back-when beloved songs, as I suppose many did. I used to like his early work best, but this time I chose Love Sick, a collection of his love songs (and some anti-love songs). This album
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M.A.F.S. English professor or not, I’m not embarrassed to admit that I’m a Married at First Sight super-fan. I’ve seen every season since the first, and even with its poor rate of successful marriages (maybe better than The Bachelor/Bachelorette, though), I find it fascinating. Why? Because it’s so difficult to predict which couples will stay
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In my previous post, I asked which you’d choose: “passion,” meaning intense emotional desire, or “love”, defined as deep companionable affection. The question is absurd: in real life, you can’t choose which one you feel for a particular person. My hypothetical question was only meant to show something about yourself. For example, I would choose
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In Part II, I wrote: Ask questions! Not factual questions (“How do you get to work?”), or at least not mostly factual questions. Look, if you’re not just looking for sex or fun (which is sometimes the same thing), you want to plumb the depths, and quickly. Or at least I do, to fend off
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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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