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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

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Is There a Suffering and Silence in Relationships?

We are technically free to marry and get together with whoever we like, but what we don't fully appreciate is just how psychologically restricted we are. What we're really talking about here often is a kind of psychological attraction. Sometimes what we miss in somebody is the fact that they may not torture us. They may not make us unhappy. And it's part of the dizzying excitement of modern love.

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