Boom in dating apps, overconsumption of love, ephemeral relationships, demand for immediacy, bursts of divorce at all ages, politicization of intimacy, new feminist wave... Love in 2023 is being shaken up both in its values and in its expression .
And yet, romance remains essential in our lives.
“We are programmed to be loved and to love”, summarizes Florence Escaravage, founder of the Love Intelligence training center, which brings together researchers and experts around the issues of affect.
Certainly, we no longer forge a romantic relationship today as we did five years ago, but the speed with which the codes of romanticism have changed does not mean its end.
On his site, the sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann, a great observer of the couple, of its uses,
needs and habits for decades, even asserts that "we have never needed romance so much".
So, what else comes to fill, or build, what we continue...
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