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Continuing the Radical Love research, current reading list includes: 

Meg Barker - Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

Anthony Giddens - The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies 

David M. Ortmann, Sprott Richard - Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities 

Marion Solomon, Stan Tatkin - Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy

Meg Barker, Darren Langridge - Understanding Non-Monogamies

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The complexity and messiness of our own love stories can seem wrong when compared against the movie narrative that has become so familiar. But real life doesn’t follow a straight-forward script. If we’re not careful, we end up chasing an elusive once and for all happily ever after, either in one relationship, or from relationship to relationship, rather than recognizing that all relationships, and emotional states, will inevitably ebb and flow. - Meg Barker

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A couple RSA shorts on empathy for y'all:

The Empathic Civilisation

The Power of Empathy

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I wonder what would happen if I treated everyone like I was in love with them, whether I like them or not and whether they respond or not and no matter what they say or do to me and even if I see things in them which are ugly twisted petty cruel vain deceitful indifferent, just accept all that and turn my attention to some small weak tender hidden part and keep my eyes on that until it shines like a beam of light like a bonfire I can warm my hands by and trust it to burn away all the waste which is not never was my business to meddle with. - Derek Tasker, I Wonder (via)