For centuries, love has been celebrated, romanticized, and mythologized as a force that is simultaneously blissful and agonizing. Songs, novels, and films repeatedly echo the idea that love cannot ...

The phrase “hurt people hurt people” carries profound truth, emerging regularly in discussions about relationships, trauma and emotional health. This cycle of pain, where those who have suffered ...

Something hit me the other day while writing, kind of like a quiet little truth I’d been avoiding: If you block pain, you also block love I know — sounds strange at first. I mean, pain and love — they ...

Let’s be honest, love doesn’t hurt. Expectations do. Fantasies do. Stories we write in our heads do. What we call “love” is often just deep attachment to an idea, a future, or a version of someone ...