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The Ex You Can’t Get Over
It’s when a very meaningful relationship comes to an end that we stand to discover a highly peculiar fact about…
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The Challenges of Male Friendships
Men are lonely not through any specific deficiency on their part but because of an inherent conflict between what is required of being a man on the one hand and what is involved in being a friend on the other.
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Why Introverts Are As They Are
We become introverted or extroverted as a result of particular experiences; it is our distinctive path through childhood that determines at which end of the spectrum we are going to fall.
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The Boring Person
The boring person isn’t really boring; they are in manic flight from what is profoundly and agonisingly interesting in themselves.
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Relationships
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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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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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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Relationships
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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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…
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:…
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