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Tag Archives: Romance
Women are better lovers
There is this passage in the poet Byron’s Don Juan that has always impressed me as one of the keenest observations concerning women to be found in literature: “Man’s love is of his life a thing apart,/’Tis woman’s whole existence” … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron's Don Juan, love, male lovers, Men, Romance, Women, women and love
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How fear erodes love
Like many of you, I follow the news, only to come away frequently dismayed. For all our pretense to rationality, people often seem governed more by passion than reason. History strikes me as repeated scenarios of human excess, or what … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections
Tagged Abandonment, Fear, Id ego and super-ego, Relationships, Romance
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Love as a many splendored thing
Recently one of America’s favorite singers, Rihanna, reconciled with her on and off again boyfriend, Chris Brown. You’ll remember he had beaten her up several months earlier. In a similar vein, about a year ago I got to know a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections
Tagged love, Relational aggression, Rihanna, Romance, Sylvia Plath
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