Celebrating love is lovely, but romanticising love can be detrimental* to our relationships.
*detrimental:
synonyms: harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, inimical, deleterious, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous, pernicious, environmentally unfriendly, ill, bad, evil, baleful, malign, corrupting, malignant, adverse, undesirable, prejudicial, unfavourable, unfortunate, counterproductive
JUST TO BE TOTALLY CLEAR ; )
The set of ideas we can call Romanticism is responsible for making our relationships extremely difficult. We shouldn’t give up on love; we should just recognize that it’s more a skill we can actively practice, and less an emotion that we have no control over.
Bron: Films For Action
