Relationships
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : The School of Life, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 119 pages illustrations (some colour) 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780993538742
- 0993538746
- 306.7 23
- Dodf
- Oac
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Post-romanticism -- Object choice -- Transference -- The problems of closeness -- The weakness of strength -- Partner-as-child -- Loving and being loved -- The dignity of ironing -- Teaching and learning -- Pessimism -- Blame and love -- Politeness and secrets -- Explaining one's madness -- Artificial conversations -- Crushes -- Sexual non-liberation -- The loyalist and the libertine -- Celibacy and endings -- Classical vs romantic -- Better love stories.
Love has a history and we ride – sometimes rather helplessly – on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love. Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love:? That it is ok that love and sex may not always belong together ? That discussing money early on, in a serious way, is not a betrayal of love ? That realising that we are rather flawed, and our partner is too, is of huge benefit to a couple ? That we will never find everything we need in another person, nor they in us ? That spending two hours discussing whether bathroom towels should be hung up or can be left on the floor has its own dignityFull of applied real-life examples, and enlivened throughout with humour and cultural anecdote, this innovative guide paves the way to a new, brighter future for love. -- Publisher's description.
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