Love as a Story
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Vol. 12 (4) , 541-546
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407595124007
Abstract
This article advances the view that love is a story. The article discusses relationships as stories, what our stories are like, kinds of stories, where stories come from, how stories control the development of relationships, the difficulty of changing stories, the role of ideal stories, the cultural matrix of stories and relations to theories of love.Keywords
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