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	<title>MINDREADERS DICTIONARY &#187; love</title>
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		<title>Ambigamy:  Love&#8217;s lost labors</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/ambigamy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last song in a series of three, here&#8217;s one whose target audience is not the middle-aged but rather the young and restless. It was inspired by an argument I couldn&#8217;t get started with someone who only wanted to talk about how the media was to blame for youth culture&#8217;s slide into promiscuity. I agreed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rather Partial: The delicate art of clinging right.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/children/rather-partial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aspiration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a parent for twenty-seven years—but for the past ten, you could say I’ve been a partial parent. Since my divorce my ex-wife and I have each had the kids half-time, so I’ve altered between being the one parent on the scene and in effect hardly being parental at all. The other day I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Wife Crisis: It’s the economy, stupid.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mid-wife-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opportunity costs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=76</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was married by 24 and had my first child at 25. By the standard of my parents’ generation, 24 was normal&#8211;my father married at that age&#8211;but by my generation’s standard (especially within my Northern California subculture), it was peculiar to get married so young. My firstborn child is eight years older than those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration of Co-dependence: You might as well face it—you’re addicted through love.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/declaration-of-co-depndence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my local grocery store. See, I love to eat. When I don’t eat, I feel like I’m missing something. The grocery store is full of things I can eat. Mine is open 24 hours a day. It’s about ten blocks away and I can drive to it in my reliable car, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-passion: Gridlock at the crossroads of love</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/co-passion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people wrote to say how much they liked last week’s article on romanticynicism—the joining of romanticism and cynicism—but the article left me wondering what I really meant by it. I said I’d prescribe romanticynicism to anyone, but the more I think about it the more it seems that romanticynicism is a question, not an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romanticynicism: Love in the irony age</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/romanticynicism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/romanticynicism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people don’t feel safe in love unless it’s complete, absolute, and unconditional. Others (me, for one) only feel safe in love when it isn’t. I feel safest when I, and those who love with me, know that love can never be complete, absolute, and unconditional, that unconditional love is only unconditional under certain conditions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intraselection: How marrying one thing leads to another</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/children/intraselection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/children/intraselection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a trait persists, other traits generally accumulate in support of it. In evolutionary theory, it&#8217;s called intraselection: If it becomes adaptive for an animal to have a heavier head (with bigger horns, for example), it becomes adaptive to also have stronger neck muscles and sturdier front legs. When our primate ancestors started to rely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambigamy: For the sake of our relationship admitting we&#8217;re ignoring our doubts</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/ambigamy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/ambigamy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=8</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We were doing fine, and now, suddenly, all these issues have come up. I can&#8217;t believe the things she is saying about me. I mean, why didn&#8217;t she say them a long time ago? Isn&#8217;t there some kind of statute of limitations on past relationship annoyances? I told her I wanted us to stay current. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirmationomics: The subtext &#8220;Am I OK?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/affirmationomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=6</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I quoted Alain de Botton&#8217;s opening paragraph from his new book &#8216;Status Anxiety&#8217;: &#8220;Every life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first-the story of our quest for sexual love—is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infantasy: The dream of unconditional love never dies young</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A primordial merged state of bliss back when loneliness didn&#8217;t exist. I&#8217;ve dreamt of that balm like the calm of my mom. You remind me of it with your kiss. I love this compassionate opening paragraph in Alain de Botton&#8217;s book &#8220;Status Anxiety&#8221;: &#8220;Every life could be said to be defined by two great love [...]]]></description>
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