Thread: Is love dead?
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Old Dec 01, 2015, 04:26 PM
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For all the things we're talk in school and in life (mechanics, math, language, finance), we're not taught about how to work through relationships. We're not taught that the relationship will change over time and that it takes different tools through the years to make it work. We're not taught how we'll change emotionally toward our partners and we're not taught about emotional bonding. ...

This is so true! So we all get to learn from our dysfunctional families and think that's how relationships are supposed to be. I wish we could teach kids effective communication, characteristics of healthy relationships, what to expect from love (instead of letting Disney teach them that one!)
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