Love Needs Reinventing

When 19th-century French poet Rimbaud famously said that love needs reinventing, he may have spoken a truism, but within a questionable context — in my opinion. Perhaps it is true that it isn’t just love that binds so many families and married couples. But it does not follow that love is not. Apparently, Rimbaud was (more…)

Relationships Are A Tricky Balancing Act

Look around you and you’ll find boring as well as thrilling conjugal relationships among couples, and anything in between. What is it that you are looking for in your love life? All relationships are a balancing act, so take your chances. Regardless, even a “nearly perfect” loving relationship really is a living, a delicate joint (more…)

A Theory of Love to Discuss

Do we know what love is? What are our assumptions? Can we know what love is? And even if we do, can we then also find the right words to discuss it with others, that is to explain our expectations during modern courtship? The word love alone is failing us as all words are just (more…)