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The examined love life — what it means to love well

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living; this domain applies that principle directly to love. What would it mean to bring the same quality of honest inquiry to how we love as we bring to our professional or intellectual development? The examined love life is not more complicated than the unexamined one — it is simply more awake, more intentional, and, the evidence suggests, more sustaining.

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