Sad Love
Romance and the Search for Meaning

Do you ever get that feeling that a book just sees you? That was how I felt reading Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins. Sad Love deconstructs popular notions of happiness and romantic love with Jenkins's characteristic combination of compassion, originality and rigour, challenging us to reconsider our found......more

Qué experiencia. Ya me había ganado y acercándose al final empieza a hablar de cómo la compatibilidad de una pareja se entiende en términos de consumo. El amor romántico no se presenta porque lo merezcamos, y tampoco lo puede todo. El guion romántico es un constructo social escrito por el capitalism......more

Ella parte del concepto de amor romántico que busca el felices para siempre. En ese sentido examina qué significa ser feliz y habla sobre cómo el capitalismo ha pasado de mostrarnos la felicidad como un derecho a mostrárnosla como una obligación. Estamos obligados a buscar nuestra felicidad. Así Jen......more

Sad Love is less cohesive than Ms. Jenkins' first book. She describes it as scraps assembled by an intellectual magpie. This lack of cohesion contributed to its being ultimately unconvincing. It was hard to understand what eudaimonic love is and see how and why it should replace romantic love (the c......more

Read half of this book, then got dissapointed that there weren't a lot of new concepts for me, so paused it for a couple of months before finishing it. It is a good book; found the maximiser/satisficer concepts something to reflect on (then dove into researching these concepts under cbt). The eudaim......more