Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning Jenkins C
Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning Jenkins C As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.Love is most often associated with…
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Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning Jenkins C
As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril.
And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society foists upon us. The people we love can badly let us down. Since we are inevitably disappointed by love, would we be better off without it?No, says Carrie Jenkins.
Instead, we need a new philosophy of love, one that recognises that the pain and suffering love causes are a natural, even a good part of what makes love worthwhile. What Carrie calls "Sad Love" offers no bogus "happy ever afters". Rather, it tries to find a way to properly integrate heartbreak and disappointment into the lived experience of love.