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The Perfect Love We Seek, the Imperfect Love We Live
By John Welwood — 2017
Love is what we long to receive and to give, yet our intimate relationships are conflicted and often painful. The late psychologist John Welwood looks at the difference between absolute and relative love, and the wound within each of us that no other can heal.
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