Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject Author: Daniel Jones | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DB32U8I | Format: PDF
Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject Description
From the editor of the New York Times' popular "Modern Love" column, the story of love from beginning to end (or not).
Love. We want it. We need it. We pay it homage with songs and poems and great works of art. And when we lose it, there's no pain as intense or excruciating. For centuries we've been trying to figure it out, control it, or just get better at it. As the editor of a column about love for the New York Times, Daniel Jones reads thousands of stories about people's intimate relationships—the ones that soar, crash, or hum along, from the bizarre to the supposedly “normal.” It's possible that he's read more true love stories than anyone on earth. In Love Illuminated, he teases apart this mystifying emotion that thrills, crushes, and sustains.
Drawing from the 50,000 stories that have crossed his desk over the past decade, Jones explores ten aspects of love—pursuit, destiny, vulnerability, connection, trust, practicality, monotony, infidelity, loyalty, and wisdom—and creates a lively, funny and enlightening journey through this universal human experience that jangles the head and stirs the heart.
- File Size: 505 KB
- Print Length: 229 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062211161
- Publisher: William Morrow (February 4, 2014)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DB32U8I
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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"A man who has read letters about love from 50,000 people must have some brilliant insights on the topic," was my thought as I ordered this book without knowing anything about it other than the NY Times `Modern Love' column my friend had forwarded to me. Luckily, it was a decent gamble: I enjoyed "Love Illuminated" and learned much from it.
Jones covers the full spectrum of relationships via 9 chapters: pursuit, destiny, vulnerability, connection, trust, practicality, monotony, infidelity, loyalty, and wisdom. His treatment of the topics is consistently lighthearted and even funny, never soap-box preachy. I broke out into FVG (full-volume guffaw) at least 3 times (LOL ain't what it used to be).
He approaches the topics descriptively rather than prescriptively, befitting his role as reporter rather than licensed therapist (for relevant books by professionals, I would recommend Dr Gordon Livingston's How to Love and Dr John Gottman's indispensable The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work). Jones presents the full taxonomy of possibilities for a given challenge and then presents you with the pluses and minuses for each, allowing you to decide what works. For example, to preserve individuality in your marriage, you can get separate houses, get an office spouse, or have an open marriage. (There are similar lists for handling monotony, and deciding upon your married last name.) He then illustrates each outcome with case histories from readers' letters, which are the most fun part of the book.
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