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As a woman with a husband and other partners philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated

Love is most often associated with happiness satisfaction and pleasure But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling The people we love can let us down badly And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society foists upon us Since we are inevitably disappointed by love wouldnt we be better off without it

No says Carrie Jenkins Instead we need a new philosophy of love one that recognizes that the pain and suffering love causes are a natural even a good part of what makes love worthwhile What Jenkins calls sad love offers no bogus happy ever afters Rather it tries to find a way properly to integrate heartbreak and disappointment into the lived experience of love

Its time we liberated love