A less tormented, societally changed romanticism redraws the map of its tenderness. What does he say about today’s couple?
The boom in dating apps, the overconsumption of love, fleeting relationships, the demand for immediacy, bursts of divorce at all ages, the politicization of intimate relationships, the feminist new wave… Love in 2023 is shaking both its values and its expression. . And yet, romance remains essential in our lives. “We are programmed to love and be loved,” sums up Florence Escaravage, founder of the Love Intelligence Learning Center, which brings together researchers and experts on affect issues. Of course, today we no longer form romantic relationships like we did five years ago, but the speed with which the codes of romance are changing does not mean the end of it. On his website, sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann, a keen observer of the couple, its uses, needs and habits for decades, even affirms that “we have never needed romance so much.” So what else comes to fill, or build upon, what we continue to…
Source: Le Figaro
