How to fall in love
In the beginning of a relationship, it seems like all you do is look. You want to know this person, figure them out so you can carve out the perfect-sized space for them to fit into your life. This involves paying attention, making notes, asking questions. Then, after a certain point, when you’ve created the space and they fit, you get complacent.
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To understand the nature of the phenomenon of falling in love and the inevitability of its ending, it is necessary to examine the nature of what psychiatrists call ego boundaries. From what we can ascertain by indirect evidence, it appears that the newborn infant during the first few months of its life does not distinguish between itself and the re
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