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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

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Is There Anything More Attractive About Your Partner?

"There's a kind of depressive vision of love, which says, at first it's exciting. And then gradually we lose interest and we want other people," he said. "I don't think that anyone who's on the receiving end of that openness will ever leave their partner." The most attractive kind of thing you can do to your partner is to start asking them for example, what's been on your mind lately? How have I been frustrating you? What could we do better?"

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