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Romanticism and love

The cultural story that love should be effortless, all-consuming, and solve your emptiness—a beautiful mythology that sets most relationships up to fail when the intensity naturally settles or requires actual work. Romanticism mistakes the feeling of love for the practice of loving, which is why so many people mistake the end of infatuation for the end of love itself.

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