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Katie Roiphe on ‘A Vindication of Love – Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century’

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July 20, 2009

Nehring interrogates our steadfast insistence on balanced, healthy relationships, our readiness to condemn doomed, impossible entanglements. She argues that it may in fact be a sign of health to enter into a relationship that is turbulent, demanding or unorthodox. She praises long-distance relationships, arduous relationships, relationships with men who are elusive, relationships the therapeutic culture adamantly opposes. She asks, “Could it be that the choice of a challenging love object signals strength and resourcefulness rather than insecurity and psychological damage, as we so often hear?”

via Katie Roiphe, ‘A Vindication of Love – Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century,’ by Cristina Nehring – NYTimes.com.

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