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"What do you like about me, that I like about myself? Do you notice when I make an effort? Do you care?
Welcome to Day 2 of our Valentine's Week special, talking about love, from different angles, through different books. In today's episode of there'sabookforthat podcast, I talk about the importance of valuing each other's efforts in relationships.
Love is such an interesting subject to talk about because it is so important for so many of us, to the extent that there is a whole commercial day of guilt and longing set aside to make those in love feel bad for not showing it, and those not in love, long for someone to spend the day with. Love’s great, and yet for a lot of people, if statistics, social media, TV and talking to people, be believed, love proves elusive time and time again, and if not elusive, disappointing.
I want to take a different approach today, looking at why it’s so easy for us to be disappointed in love, all the ways in which we may be setting ourselves up to fail, in romantic contexts and otherwise. To do this, we will be looking at a tiny part of the book, The Colour Purple, by Alice Walker.
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