A former history teacher writes personal essays on everyday social life, relationships, and human behaviour, using a candid, wry voice. Readers get sharp, humorous takes on dating anxiety, gender expectations in marriage, and how adults lose the openness they had as children.
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A newsletter by author Natasha Lunn exploring love in all its forms through personal essays and long-form conversations with writers, therapists and thinkers. Issues cover grief, dependency, friendship and romance, often anchored in a recent book or adaptation.
Esther Perel's newsletter shares anonymized excerpts from her relationship counselling calls and essays on desire, intimacy and connection. Readers get expert, psychotherapy-informed reflections on fantasy, sexuality and emotional safety, plus announcements of her podcast and tour.
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
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