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Good Endings in Love
The pain exacted by the unwanted end of a relationship will always be significant for the abandoned party – but…
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How the Wrong Images of Love Can Ruin Our Lives
The Romantic view of relationships doesn’t merely produce bad art. It’s extremely dangerous as a guide to life.
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When Love Isn’t Easy
You’re up in the middle of the night and once again, you’re in trouble in love…
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Why We All End Up Marrying Our Parents
Psychoanalysis doesn’t merely insist that we will marry someone like our parent. It also proposes that what we really want to do is to give the story with a parent-type figure a different ending.
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On Castration Anxiety
In an attempt to explain the often puzzling phenomenon of male heterosexual impotence, psychologists have at points offered us one…
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How to Find Out What Might Happen With a New Partner
When a new relationship is on the cards, as we chat over supper or go on a walk, we might…
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Trust What You Knew Then, Not What You Feel Now
The business of living can be complicated by a particularly exhausting habit: our tendency to question our judgements with the…
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Four Explanations for Self-Sabotage
One of the most curious and dispiriting of all psychological behaviours goes under the title of self-sabotage. Someone with prospects…
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Those of Us Who Need a War Zone
We naturally assume that a life in a peaceful country will always be preferable to one in a war torn…
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Sociability
Why Introverts Are As They Are
It is tempting to assume that one might simply be born either introverted or extroverted, as though these categories were…
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Those of Us Who Don’t Expect Kindness in Love
Some of us appear to have an above average talent for finding ourselves in unfulfilling relationships. Our unions might begin…
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A Dark Way to Predict What Might Happen in Your Relationship
A dark and frightening way to predict what might happen in your relationship with a new person is to ask…
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Relationships
On Castration Anxiety
In an attempt to explain the often puzzling phenomenon of male heterosexual impotence, psychologists have at points offered us one…
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Relationships
How to Find Out What Might Happen With a New Partner
When a new relationship is on the cards, as we chat over supper or go on a walk, we might…
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Self-Knowledge
Trust What You Knew Then, Not What You Feel Now
The business of living can be complicated by a particularly exhausting habit: our tendency to question our judgements with the…
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Self-Knowledge
Four Explanations for Self-Sabotage
One of the most curious and dispiriting of all psychological behaviours goes under the title of self-sabotage. Someone with prospects…
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Self-Knowledge
Those of Us Who Need a War Zone
We naturally assume that a life in a peaceful country will always be preferable to one in a war torn…
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Sociability
Why Introverts Are As They Are
It is tempting to assume that one might simply be born either introverted or extroverted, as though these categories were…
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Relationships
Those of Us Who Don’t Expect Kindness in Love
Some of us appear to have an above average talent for finding ourselves in unfulfilling relationships. Our unions might begin…
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Relationships
A Dark Way to Predict What Might Happen in Your Relationship
A dark and frightening way to predict what might happen in your relationship with a new person is to ask…
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