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Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves
How to nurture a love that “would stand as a firm wall,” that “won’t let you fall, and it gives warmth.”
Margaret Atwood on Marriage
“Marriage is not a house or even a tent…”
The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
Relationship Happiness and Your DNA: How One Gene Encodes Emotional Sensitivity
Inside the nuanced science of serotonin and the underappreciated upside of being a sensitive creature.
Love, Pain, and Growth: The Forgotten Philosopher, Poet, and Pioneering LGBT Rights Activist Edward Carpenter on How to Survive the Agony of Falling in Love
“Self-consciousness is fatal to love. The self-conscious lover never ‘arrives.’”
The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”
The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single
“Liberty is a better husband than love.”
The Complementarity of Multiple Loves: The Victorian Philosopher Edward Carpenter on How Freedom Strengthens Togetherness in Long-Term Relationships
“Sympathy with and understanding of the person one lives with must be cultivated to the last degree possible, because it is a condition of any real and permanent alliance. And it may even go so far (and should go so far) as a frank understanding and tolerance of such person’s other loves.”
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