{"id":1253,"date":"2023-02-18T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T08:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/if-you-fail-at-love-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T04:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T08:06:54","slug":"if-you-fail-at-love-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/if-you-fail-at-love-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Fail at Love \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Consolation for our learned brokenness on the path to healing. <\/h2>\n

By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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\u201cThere is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love,\u201d the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm wrote in his timeless treatise on learning love as a skill<\/a>. We fail at it largely because, given how profoundly shaped we are by our formative attachments<\/a>, those of us who grew up with instability and violence from our primary caregivers \u2014 the people tasked with loving us and teaching us about love \u2014 can feel woefully handicapped at love, unconsciously replicating the emotional patterns of those familiar relationship dynamics known as limbic attractors<\/em><\/a>, only to emerge with a colossus of shame and self-blame for what feels like failing at love.<\/p>\n

There is no greater consolation for that feeling than the knowledge that one is not alone in it, and that there is a way through it, past it, beyond it, within reach.<\/p>\n

That is what artist Tara Booth<\/a> offers in a largehearted and courageously vulnerable illustrated reckoning<\/a> she published on that industrialized emblem of shame and self-blame, Valentine\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n

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Complement with the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s field guide to learning love<\/a>, Alain de Botton on love and vulnerability<\/a>, Eric Berne\u2019s classic Games People Play<\/em><\/a>, and the heartening science of how healthy love rewires the brain<\/a>, then revisit Shel Silverstein\u2019s lovely illustrated allegory for the simple secret of lasting love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HT Debbie Millman<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n