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When to Get Out of a Relationship
We are often reminded that – in our self-indulgent times – people tend to get out of relationships far too…
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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age
The more challenging existence as a whole becomes, the more we may appreciate what remains pure and hopeful, despite its modest appearance or lack of obvious glamour.
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What Should a Good Therapist Do For Us?
It can be hard to get a clear sense of how therapy actually works and what we would ideally gain from it. We propose that a good therapist should do the following:
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What We Might Learn from the Dandies of the Congo
One is dressed not in order to be practical for the long-term, but in order to look awe-inspiringly beautiful today: to brighten one’s surroundings and gladden one’s friends and colleagues.
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Relationships
Stay Away From All but the Most Enthusiastic
It can take a very long time indeed for some of us to come to a highly basic-sounding realisation: we…
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Relationships
The Sorrows of Love
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Les Malheurs de l’amour (The Sorrows of Love), 1790 If we happened to pass this painting in its home –…
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Self-Knowledge
The Importance of Hating People
The idea that we might, at points, need to create room for hatred – that mental well-being might rely on…
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Self-Knowledge
On Not Being Able to Believe Your Own Luck
It would be natural to assume that luck was something it was very easy indeed to believe in: what could…
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Relationships
The One Question We Forget to Ask Ourselves in Love – And Why
There’s one question that people who are deeply enmeshed in love – who might have been pursuing someone in vain…
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Relationships
The Brutality of Dating
The word ‘brutal’ may sound a little hyperbolic and self-pitying when applied to an activity whose chief outward requirements involve…
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Relationships
Starting New Love While Still Hung Up on an Ex
In the pantheon of modern villains of love, there is one character who stands out as worthy of particular condemnation:…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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Relationships
Stay Away From All but the Most Enthusiastic
It can take a very long time indeed for some of us to come to a highly basic-sounding realisation: we…
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Relationships
The Sorrows of Love
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Les Malheurs de l’amour (The Sorrows of Love), 1790 If we happened to pass this painting in its home –…
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Self-Knowledge
The Importance of Hating People
The idea that we might, at points, need to create room for hatred – that mental well-being might rely on…
View
Self-Knowledge
On Not Being Able to Believe Your Own Luck
It would be natural to assume that luck was something it was very easy indeed to believe in: what could…
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Relationships
The One Question We Forget to Ask Ourselves in Love – And Why
There’s one question that people who are deeply enmeshed in love – who might have been pursuing someone in vain…
View
Relationships
The Brutality of Dating
The word ‘brutal’ may sound a little hyperbolic and self-pitying when applied to an activity whose chief outward requirements involve…
View
Relationships
Starting New Love While Still Hung Up on an Ex
In the pantheon of modern villains of love, there is one character who stands out as worthy of particular condemnation:…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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