Natasha Lunn

When I asked psychiatrist Dr Megan Poe why people lose their sense of self in relationships, she said it’s sometimes because they’re trying to ‘echo-locate the other and not reveal the self’ and merge with them.

If I was in a relationship, I longed for it to last, and if I wasn’t, I longed to find one.

We don’t learn about love at school, we don’t research it, or take a test in it, or review it once a year. We’re encouraged to learn about economics and grammar and geography, but not to know about love. It seems strange to me, how we expect so