Conversations on Love with Natasha Lunn
An email newsletter investigating love, one conversation at a time
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What did Jane Austen understand about love? (opens the original)
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Each time I watch a new Austen adaptation I’m surprised to find the deep love of her world is still there, like muscle memory, as I long for her couples to get together even though I know they already will. How does she make you long for that so much? And what does that feeling say about what we really want from love? I spoke to Diana Reid, the writer who adapted the beautiful new version of Sense and Sensibility, to explore it more… <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://sub
10 love stories from my life this year (opens the original)
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How do you want the person you already have? (opens the original)
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How to stay in love when you have young kids (opens the original)
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When my husband, Dan, and I first move in together we wave to each other every morning around 6:20am. Him on our dark, empty street as he walks to work; me looking through the thin, stripy grey and white Ikea curtains at our bedroom window. Sometimes if he is running late I wonder if he might forget to look back, but he never does. I never do either, even on icy mornings when it is easier to stay under the covers. This small thing is a big thing, as small things often are, and we do it for years
Does first love last forever? (opens the original)
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