nathanlovestrees on Nostr: Reading Father Time by Sarah Hrdy and this sentence reminded me how much I disagree ...
Reading Father Time by Sarah Hrdy and this sentence reminded me how much I disagree with the notion that one needs to first learn to love oneself before one is capable of loving another (my discomfort with the biological reduction of love aside):
“Some of the neurophysiological underpinnings of the emotions we call ‘love’ trace back to these first glimmerings of caring about someone outside oneself.”
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