Friday, February 14, 2014

Demystifying Love

Demystifying love is a needed practice throughout life if we are to break through the seasonal and developmental grinds that bear down on the very nature of relationships.

From Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional, Stephen B. Levine. New York: Routledge, 2007

Here are some nouns of love that help begin this process:
  •     An Idealized Ambition
  •     An Arrangement--a deal
  •     An attachment
  •     Moral commitment
  •     Management process
  •     A force of nature
  •     An illusion
  •     A stop sign

      Here are some diverse verbs of Love.
  •     Love evolves
  •     Falling in love
  •     Being-in-love
  •     Staying in love
Here are some concepts about staying in and sustaining love:
  •     Being genuine
  •     Overcoming narcissism
  •     Negotiation


“LOVE is mutuality of devotion forever subduing the antagonisms inherent in divided function.” - Erick Erickson

Below is a general taxonomy of love in relationships (thinking tool)


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