Conversations on Love

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.

used to think it was love that I was longing for, but I was wrong. I was obsessed with the idea of love, not the truth of it. All those years and nights I spent asking, ‘When will I find love?’ I never paused to think about what precisely it was.

bout their experiences of love in an email newsletter called Conversations on Love. I’ve listened to people talk about their love for a person, for a city, for a poem, for a tree.