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The Prudence of Love focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues related to love. Eric Silverman defends an account of love derived from the views of Thomas Aquinas and argues that love provides numerous psychological and relational benefits that increase the lover's happiness. Furthermore, he argues that love is beneficial according to all major contemporary accounts of happiness

Title Page -- Contents -- About Love Activism -- The Scope and Shape of Love Activism -- Examining Our Lives -- Who Are You!? -- Expanding Our Definition of Love -- Let's Not Miss Out on All the Love -- Love in Action and Protest -- The Eight Beautiful Elements of Love Activism -- Service -- Work -- Presence in Service -- Vulnerability and Authenticity in Service -- Serving Animals and the Earth -- Empathy -- Presence in Empathy -- Empathy as Inclusive -- Empathy for Animals -- Caring for Yourself While Practicing Empathy -- Hope -- Cultivating Hope -- Gardening -- The Importance of Anchors -- Non-Violence -- Forms of Violence -- Veganism -- Your Activist Kitchen (And Home!) -- Self-Care -- Body Love -- Imposter Phenomenon -- Peaceful Viewing -- Creativity -- Roadblocks to Creativity -- Letting Go of Expertise and Perfection/Embracing DIY Ethics -- Craftivism -- Zines -- Supporting Others -- Feminism -- Understanding Feminism -- Male Violence -- The Importance of Intersectionality -- Ecofeminism -- Mindfulness -- Eating -- Celebrating Everyday Magic -- Cultivating Silence or Quiet -- Deep Listening -- Living Portraits: Interviews With Activists -- Elise Bernal, Artist and Art Educator -- Allister Chang, Libraries Without Borders -- Dawn Finley, Feminist Library on Wheels -- Renee Folzenlogen, Art Therapist/Family Support Counselor -- Joel Garcia, Self Help Graphics -- Nicole Landers, Community Healing Gardens -- Cliff Mayotte, Voice of Witness -- Carolyn Merino Mullin, The Animal Museum -- Lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project -- Kim Sherobbi, Birwood House/James and Grace Lee Boggs Centerto Nurture Community Leadership -- Love Activism Practices -- Recommended Reading and Listening for Love Activists -- Questions for Self-Reflection and Reading Groups -- With Gratitude -- About the Author -- Index.

"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories — especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love. In this small theoretical novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love and desire in separate entries. In the first entry, Desire mainly describes the feeling one person has for something else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of attachment, and tells briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives.

In Japan, marriage rates have declined since 1980, and interest in romantic relationships has declined in the 21st century. This article shows, mainly based on the official statistics and surveys, that (i) people in contemporary Japanese society have become less willing to get married or even date; (ii) various forms of virtual love have emerged; and (iii) they have spread in East Asian countries in general. Marriage stems from romantic relationships. Simultaneously, it brings with it new economic life. In Japan and other East Asian countries there is an unwritten norm that marriage should be part of economic life. Therefore, satisfying romantic emotions outside real love and marriage is accepted.

Barry Long's groundbreaking book about the difference between love and sex. What are the real secrets of love-making? What mistakes does everyone make before learning the truth about love? What can men do to avoid sexual failure? What do women need to know before they can discover a real and fulfilling love? These revolutionary tantric teachings have inspired, challenged and profoundly changed the love-lives of many thousands of couples and are surely needed today more than ever.

Across three studies, individual differences in the degree to which (a) participants enjoyed autobiographical storytelling with their romantic partners (storytelling enjoyment [SE]) and (b) thought about these relationships in narrative terms (narrative mindset [NM]) were examined in relation to psychological functioning and romantic relationship narratives. Drawing data from over 1,650 participants, relationship satisfaction, certain positive personality traits, and a dimension of secure attachment corresponded with both SE and NM. SE and NM also related to features of participants' relationship narratives. Storytelling and applying a NM to one's love life may carry implications for functioning within the romantic domain.

Intro -- Contents of Set -- The 5 Love Languages -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What Happens to Love After the Wedding? -- 2. Keeping the Love Tank Full -- 3. Falling in Love -- 4. Love Language #1: Words of Affirmation -- 5. Love Language #2: Quality Time -- 6. Love Language #3: Receiving Gifts -- 7. Love Language #4: Acts of Service -- 8. Love Language #5: Physical Touch -- 9. Discovering Your Primary Love Language -- 10. Love Is a Choice -- 11. Love Makes the Difference -- 12. Loving the Unlovely -- 13. A Personal Word -- Frequently Asked Questions -- The 5 Love Languages Profile for Couples-for Him -- The 5 Love Languages Profile for Couples-for Her -- Notes -- The 5 Love Languages for Men -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: What's New in 5 Love Languages for Men -- 1 How Many Languages Do You Speak? -- 2 How to Become Fluent in Words of Affirmation (Love Language #1) -- 3 How to Become Fluent in Quality Time (Love Language #2) -- 4 How to Become Fluent in Gift Giving (Love Language #3) -- 5 How to Become Fluent in Acts of Service (Love Language #4) -- 6 How to Become Fluent in Physical Touch (Love Language #5) -- 7 What Languages Do You Speak? -- 8 Troubleshooting -- 9 How Can You Work Through Anger Together? -- 10 The Art of Apologizing -- Frequently Asked Questions -- The 5 Love Languages® Profiles for Couples-For Him -- The 5 Love Languages® Profiles for Couples-For Her -- Acknowledgments -- The 5 Love Languages of Children -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Speaking Your Child's Love Language -- 1. Love Is the Foundation -- 2. Love Language #1: Physical Touch -- 3. Love Language #2: Words of Affirmation -- 4. Love Language #3: Quality Time -- 5. Love Language #4: Gifts -- 6. Love Language #5: Acts of Service.

"The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States. Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen, this book attempts to move past the question of representational politics and asks us instead to think in more complex ways about LGBTQ identity, what LGBTQ politics are, and the politics of Broadway musicals themselves. Producing new, complex readings of all five of these musicals, author Aaron C. Thomas places each of them within the context of the LGBTQ politics of their day. Some of the issues the book treats are controversies of casting, the closetedness and openness of musical theatre, LGBTQ identities, adaptation from movies into musicals, and the special power of the musical form by examining how these shows differ from the books and movies on which they're based. Love Is Love Is Love places contemporary LGBTQ political tensions and conversations in a new light, making this an essential companion for students and scholars of contemporary theatre, musical theatre, cultural studies, Queer studies and gender studies"--

"The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States. Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen, this book attempts to move past the question of representational politics and asks us instead to think in more complex ways about LGBTQ identity, what LGBTQ politics are, and the politics of Broadway musicals themselves. Producing new, complex readings of all five of these musicals, author Aaron C. Thomas places each of them within the context of the LGBTQ politics of their day. Some of the issues the book treats are controversies of casting, the closetedness and openness of musical theatre, LGBTQ identities, adaptation from movies into musicals, and the special power of the musical form by examining how these shows differ from the books and movies on which they're based. Love Is Love Is Love places contemporary LGBTQ political tensions and conversations in a new light, making this an essential companion for students and scholars of contemporary theatre, musical theatre, cultural studies, Queer studies and gender studies"--