My partner and I have been reading about different theories of love together — from Plato's symposium to bell hooks — and we keep realizing how differently we understand what love actually is or should be. We're not fighting about it but I can feel us both questioning whether we're even talking about the same thing when we say we love each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their foundational understandings of love itself may be incompatible, threatening the shared language they thought they had.
“Where Are You with The philosophy of love — from Plato to contemporary?”
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