Psychologies

Coming up for air Lessons in love

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"This month, I want to write about love – romantic love. I want to talk about how hard it is to really love; to be fully authentic with another person in the knowledge that one day it could all be over. In her book (HarperCollins, £11.99), bell hooks writes: ‘So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks.’ And, for me, it has been true that allowing myself to love, whilst glorious, is also terrifying and

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