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A Crucial Sign That Someone is Worth Going Out With

There is one sign that more than any other indicates that someone may well be a rewarding and trustworthy person to go out with: that they are prepared to go to therapy.

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There Are No Small Issues in Love

The only way to prevent the largest problems is to focus exhaustively and with dark good humour on the very smallest ones.

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On Not Being Very Good at Love

Our romantic fiascos can get a little less arduous the more we can bring ourselves to shrug our shoulders and confess with a very dark smile: I really can’t do this thing called love.

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Trouble

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Trouble

Let’s imagine a person called Trouble. They’re not actually called that; nominally they go by Holly or Freya, Jason or…
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The Courage to Love Again

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The Courage to Love Again

It’s odd, surely, to use the word ‘courage’ – the thing you need in air raid shelters and cancer wards…
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Eight Rules for Friendship

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Eight Rules for Friendship

A Community Dedicated to Learning the Art of Friendship We are inclined to think that the secret of great friendship…
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The Repetition Compulsion

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The Repetition Compulsion

One of the most remarkable ideas in the history of psychoanalysis is to be found in Freud’s 1920 paper ‘Beyond…
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