The Lessons we Learn in Love
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Relationships are profoundly complicated, but when they finally end, we often find we can summarize years of turmoil into a single, compact sentence on a Post-it note. Start your free Membership trial – 2,000+ articles, 1,000+ videos, 50+ courses, free for a week: https://www.theschooloflife.com/membership The tragedy is that while every lesson of love is simple to state, each one takes years of heartbreak and exhaustion to truly learn—and there are well over a hundred traps waiting on the syllabus. In this film, we explore the bittersweet reality of emotional education and why we secretly just want an uneducated, illiterate happiness to finally have its turn. "Relationships are hugely complicated but sometimes, when they’re over, we find that we might be able to summarise what we think the whole thing was about into pretty compact sentences. For example, we may find, to our surprise, that six years with someone is capable of being captured on something not much bigger than a post-it
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