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Psyche And Her Two Sisters. Jean-Honore Fragonard, 1797

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden. The More Loving One

When love comes, we try to understand this persistent, irresistible feeling and, in confusion, realize that no one taught us what to do about it. Love is always a forced self-education. Our consciousness is trying to collect scattered impressions from parental relationships, from the stories of friends, literary images, and give us an answer to constantly arising tormenting questions.

It is logical to assume that psychologists who are experts in the suffering of human souls can also advise on the human joys associated with love. That it would be quite reasonable to get acquainted with the most significant achievements of modern psychology in the field of love relationships.