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LOVE / RELATIONSHIP / LIFE
After All, Love is Thrilling and Conquers All. Right? Wrong!❤️
Love may make you feel better about your relationship problems, but it doesn’t solve any of your relationship problems
With science proving that true love is possible, I’ve decided to look at the psychological components that allow love to bloom or fade.
In our culture, many of us serenade to love. Fairy stories about dazzling princes and swooning princesses have filled the collective imagination for ages. Philosophers and poets hail it as some elevated and romanticized cure-all for life’s ills. We bow to the altar of love in our movies and glorified stories, celebrating it in our history as the final hope to cure our pain and life’s enduring skirmishes.
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Those of you familiar with the BeeGees’ who ask how deep love is. And the Beatles ask whether love is all you need. John Lennon wrote a song called “All You Need Is Love,” which was ironic because it came from a man who smacked both of his wives and ditched one of his children.
And because we salute love, idealize it, and overestimate it that once at the end of that…
