Conversations on Love

‘Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.’

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.

love is not a narrow thing. That love is what makes us care, connects us to each other and the world. That love is a quest, a promise, a home. It’s the force we create to reach each other, with cups of tea and tenderness, with humour and ‘I’m sorry’s; and it’s a world we create with another person, one truth at a time.