My husband and I are both academics and we've been researching attachment theory and evolutionary psychology of love, and it's making us hyper-aware of all the ways our relationship fits or doesn't fit these patterns. We're starting to feel like we're studying our own love instead of living it.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual analysis of love's mechanisms creates distance from the immediate, embodied experience of loving.
“Where Are You with The philosophy of love — from Plato to contemporary?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.