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Category Archives: Love
Decoding The Fight Over Love Addiction
The NYT reports: “Is Love Addictive? Many Say Yes, and It’s Changing Our Idea of Romance. Poems and songs say love should be world-shattering. The logic of love addiction suggests that it shouldn’t.” ChatGPT says: The fight over “love addiction” … Continue reading
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Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In Childhood, Adolescence and Maturity by John Money
* “Dr. John Money is the Duke of Dysfunction, a man who writes about “unspeakable” human sexual problems with such dignity and care that his case histories make me feel almost normal.” — John Waters, jacket endorsement for John Money, … Continue reading
An Orthodox View Of Love
Jewish Standard: Both Ms. Brown’s books are written in a child’s voice — a smart, self-aware, limit-testing, often obnoxious little girl, self-centered as happy children often are, secure in her parents’ love and her place in the world. “Hush,” published … Continue reading
Acts Of Love
A month ago, Jeb Bush sympathized out loud with illegal aliens. He said April 6: “Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family.” Love is … Continue reading
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You Are Your Record
You are what your record says you are and who you are in love and marriage is who you really are because that’s where you are most vulnerable. Love and marriage exposes your weaknesses. “If you are miserably married, that’s … Continue reading
Love Is Supposed To Hurt
Therapist Mark E. Smith says: Love is Mother Nature’s tool to force you to go back and work on unresolved issues from your childhood. I wished that Christian faith healed emotional wounds and made people emotionally healthier but it’s just … Continue reading
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How Much Is Lust And How Much Is Love?
A good way to tell is to ask how much time do you spend on the phone. (Dennis Prager) I think this is a great point. In my best relationships, we talk for hours. In fact, in all of my … Continue reading
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Tagged commitments, Dennis Prager, legacy, personal growth, Relationships
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Drunk On Love
A few years ago, I met a girl at a convention. She had a boyfriend but was complaining about him a lot and very quickly we hooked up and she became my girl. But was she my girl? I had … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Personal, Sex, Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tagged Jewish Journal, journal columnist, psychological training, Rachel Resnick, tamara shayne, unrealistic expectation
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Risking It All For Love
Katie Roiphe writes in the New York Times about a challenging new book on love: Nehring sees in the grandeur of feeling a kind of heroism, even if the relationship doesn’t take conventional form or endure in the conventional way. … Continue reading
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Tagged healthy relationships, katie roiphe, long distance relationships, nehring, precious years, psychological damage
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When Is Love Sick?
Fred responds: I read a book called "Love Sick" some time ago. The main thesis of the book is that love has much in common with certain psychiatric conditions, e.g. obsessive compulsive disorder, etc. It was actually a pretty interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged alimony payments, human specie, hungry bears, obsessive compulsive disorder, sea louse, species of spiders
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