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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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How to Leave a Party

Sociability

How to Leave a Party

It is possible to catch a telling glimpse of our levels of underconfidence in a sad quirk of our approach…
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On Becoming a Hermit

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On Becoming a Hermit

It’s one of the telling quirks of history that just as the world was growing ever noisier and more urbanised,…
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Auditing Our Worries

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Auditing Our Worries

One of the basic courtesies we almost never remember to pay our worries is to go back and check how…
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