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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, wouldn't 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. It's time we liberated love."

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Carrie Jenkins is an award-winning philosopher, novelist, and poet. She is also professor of philosophy and Canada research chair at the University of British Columbia. Jordan Cobb is a New York City-based actress, voice-over artist, and writer. She is the founder of the audio fiction company No Such Thing Productions and has been featured in over two dozen fictional podcasts. She has narrated over a dozen audiobooks, including New York Times bestsellers Roseanne A. Brown's A Song of Wraiths and Ruin duology and Kalynn Bayron's This Poison Heart duology. When she isn't comfortably settled behind the mic, you can usually find her up on stage, or buried under paper and ink.

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