The End of Love
Or, to be more exact, the end of the Love Symposium. Gratitude, teasers, and Madeleine Peyroux after the jump. You should also consider it an open thread.
Tagged: Love Symposium
Some Unsolicited Love Advice From Jaybird
Jaybird wanders through the Five Languages of Love and Long Distance Relationships before telling you how to live.
Lost in Translation: A Russian-American Love Story
They were born two months apart. He grew up in a three-room apartment in Leningrad during the Brezhnev era. She came of age in the stucco suburbs of sunny 1970s Southern California. How two people from opposite universes met, fell in love, and managed to stay married despite, or perhaps because of, their cultural differences.
Every Breath You Take…
Sometimes love is the vehicle for evil. Guest writer zic explains, in what might be the most powerful story Ordinary Times has ever featured.
(A warning to readers that although no graphic language is used, this post does contain disturbing subject matter.)
Sometimes Love Means Having to be the Bad Guy
Love is built on trust. But how can trust be built with young children? Kazzy explores…
This Isn’t What I Wished For
Does love endure? Will a love developed over decades whither and fade in a few short years? I don’t think I want to find out.
The Love of a Dog
Can dogs love us? What science may say about the relationship between humans and their canine companions.
A Reasonable Decomposition of Love
A framework for love lifted from a 1986 academic paper is of value.
Love, Marriage, and Character Development
Trumwill cites Tim Minchin while prattling on about how love changes us.
Symposium Tuesday questions, Venue edition
I guarantee we were having more fun than anyone else in that restaurant.
The Making of a Love Story
Not everyone waited for craigslsit or Match.com to be invented to find a way to browse potential partners. Johanna Hanley revisits her parents courtship.
Love In His Eyes
“Today our son is four years old. Some days I honestly don’t remember that our journey to becoming a family is different from most. He is part of my heart and I can’t imagine any other way for our family to exist.”
Poor Partners
In classical art, you almost never see Athena and Aphrodite depicted together. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not the same reason you never see Clark Kent and Superman in the same room.
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Life in a Long Distance Relationship
What happens when someone who is suspicious of the very idea of long-distance relationships decides he has no other choice but engage in one?
