Unrequited love

In Praise of Unrequited Love

Unrequited love is always going to be the poor relative of the requited kind, but that is no reason to ignore or denigrate it. We're all fated to spend a part of our lives deeply enraptured by people who won't feel the same about us: this is a structural inevitability. We should learn, in

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

The Cure for Unrequited Love

The real cruelty of unrequited love is that we don’t get to know our beloveds well enough to find out their flaws – and therefore to lose interest in them gradually. The best cure for love is in essence: get to know them better. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worl

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Love Me for Who I Really Am

One of our greatest demands in love is that our partner should love us 'for who we really are'. It sounds Romantic enough, but in truth, none of us should ever expect another person to admire and adore us in our totality, with all our flaws and questionable sides. True love means being gen

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Why Only the Happily Single Find True Love

One of the key requirements for having a good chance of finding the right partner is not to mind too much being single. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/rgpEkK Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Or visit us in person at our Lon

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

What Love Really Is and Why It Matters

We talk a lot about love without fully understanding exactly what it means. True love is less an appreciation of strength than a tolerance of (and kindness towards) what is weak and misshapen in another person. Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with us: https

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Why Love Is Never As Nice As It Should Be

Our relationships are often not quite as warm and perfect as they should be. That’s perhaps because we’re comparing them with a relationship in the past to which they shouldn’t – in fairness – ever be compared. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://g

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

What Infidelity Means

Being a victim of infidelity is one of the worst things that can befall us in love. One of the ways to come back from the harrowing experience is to ask what the real meaning of the infidelity might be. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/yW1

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Why Love requires Generosity

We’re used to thinking about love as a kind of admiration for perfection. But there’s another side to what love should mean: tolerance for, and imagination about, the less than perfect sides of others. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/dDUm

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

First Love Is Always Unrequited | Stephen Fry | Big Think

First Love Is Always Unrequited New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The “unbelievable hole” of yearning and longing that it creates c

From playlist What is love? | Big Think

Frankenstein: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Extra Sci Fi - #3

Frankenstein's monster discovered three books that shaped his understanding of the world, including the Sorrows of Young Werther. Werther's unrequited love for a woman eventually leads him to commit suicide. Frankenstein's monster wants to experience love as well, but Mary Shelley has her

From playlist International Women's Day

How to Get Over Someone

Getting over someone begins with the need to realise that there are curious pleasures available from NOT getting over them… If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/m8ngkA Join our exclusive mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Or visit us in per

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

The Charms of Unavailable People

Though one might imagine that it's the available ones who charm us, the curious truth is that very often it's the elusive, not-returning-our-calls ones that really develop a power over us. This is a film that seeks to explain the curious hold that unavailable people have over our psyches.

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Is Love Addictive?

Drugs, sex, gambling, work – lots of substances and activities can hijack our brains through the process of addiction. Is love one of them? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://people.howstuffworks.com/love.htm Share on Facebook: http://goo.gl/VfIkEJ Share on Twitter: http://goo.gl/xa

From playlist Stuff About Being Human

What If We Never Find True Love...

It's a nightmarish scenario of course, that we might never find the sort of love we long for. And yet, being prepared for such an eventuality lies at the heart of the art of living - for it is only once we are properly reconciled to the possibility of never finding love that we can be libe

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Should You Save the Planet? - Philosophy Tube

Climate change and environmental damage are occurring, but do you have to do anything about it? Ethics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvoAL-KSZ32ecfEjoNjMJyKTFUS5-hNr9 That very old, old episode on saving the planet (the quality is dire): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

From playlist ETHICS

Why We Go Off People Who Like Us

Though we long for certain people to like us, an odd thing can happen once they do. What is the origin of our strange coolness towards those who show enthusiasm for us? For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://goo.gl/H9Huhv FdfmNu FURTHER READING "Oste

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

Why ‘love’ is a useless word – and three alternatives

Many of our relationship problems stem from the emptiness of our vocabulary around our affectionate emotion. We have only the minimal word 'love'. Luckily, the Ancient Greeks had a more nuanced and complicated vocabulary that we can usefully borrow from. If you like our films, take a look

From playlist RELATIONSHIPS

How to Not Treat Sexy Women Like Sex Objects

What's the difference between being attracted to women and sexually objectifying women? Share this on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1M9eFTB Share this on Twitter: http://ctt.ec/HbWcs Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1l8JXv3 On the web: http://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/ Twitter: https://twitte

From playlist Media Stuff