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Given love bears so much cultural freight and that people express love differently, when people express love to each other are they not often performing love or
by mistersquid 8y ago
Given love bears so much cultural freight and that people express love differently, when people express love to each other are they not often performing love or—more to the point—simulating (what they have come to believe are the signs of) love?
This is certainly different than whether the individual feels love, but from the viewpoint of a receiver that might not much matter.
For example, one can know one is loved but yet still want to hear the other person say, “I love you”. The feeling in such a case is not as important as the appearance, the simulation, of love.
EDIT: add indefinite article before “case”.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThere's a robust genre of country music involving a husband who loves his wife deeply, and his wife who goes crazy because he doesn't show it overtly enough for her. (Or, more commonly, involving part but not necessarily all of that setup.) The Bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfTBfa6qZPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfTBfa6qZPk Me Too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwE2XKWtqXw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwE2XKWtqXw Why Didn't I Think of That: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrLQGjQyus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrLQGjQyus