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Lunn's thoughtful interviews with brilliant subjects illuminate new ways of thinking about friendship, romance, attachment and loss. This is a lovely book, personally I struggle to read but this was laid out so the sentences would flow. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you that love is fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful; a thing always worth fighting for. I resonated so strongly with certain interviews, but I also gained valuable insight into other kinds of love and loss I won’t ever experience myself.
Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. It covers all the different kinds of love that we might experience in our lives and all of the different outcomes that go along with it, friendship, marriage, spurned lovers, etc. It covers love in friendship, love for parents, children and siblings, and even the love we can find in our day to day interactions with complete strangers. Each section seemed to recognise the emotions I’ve had at different stages of my life, but offered them up with a range of fresh perspectives.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.
The best definition of happiness is the ability to approach your life as this gorgeous, unfolding work of art that's always changing that never quite you expected to be, and then seeing that it's more beautiful than anything that's supposedly perfect and pristine. It focuses on learning to recalibrate our minds and expanding our definition of love, moving beyond the romantic idealisation, fantasies and expectations that cause us not to see each other.In recent years we've seen an explosion of content exploring relationships and sex, from Lisa Taddeo's bestseller Three Women to Esther Perel's podcast Where Should We Begin? My takeaway from this is that love is in the every day act of choosing to be with someone, of understanding that you will both change over time and accepting that, while growing together as two separate people choosing to journey through life together.
it manages to describe moments in life in the electrifying and beautiful way it’s meant to be described. Lunn’s own story is very moving, as she opens up about her feelings surrounding dating, falling in love, marriage, losing family members. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.
Her metaphors are beautiful (see my quote choice below) and the questions she asks always unlocks incredible wisdom - all around topics that people are usually too afraid to delve into. I also enjoyed the exploration of love through different relationships and particularly found the conversations with Poorna Bell and Dolly Alderton insightful and relatable. Interviewing authors and experts as well as drawing on her own experience, Natasha Lunn guides us through the complexities of these three questions. I learnt a lot about the different types of love as I read through each chapter, and I read many things in this book that made me pause for a moment and consider how it might apply to me.