Inner voice

Therapeutic love

Two complete strangers engage in a dialogue that could lead to the highest degree of trust ever gained, a newfound sense of belonging, acceptance and support, and ultimately the cessation of the ailments that initially brought us to therapy. And during all those conversations, for some people the most intimate they will ever have, something emerges that is not friendship, not family, not in love, not cooperation, but may, for both participants, contain traces of all that

Love at a click

Love with artificial intelligence: Dystopia has become a reality

Artificial intelligence is changing everything - including the way we love. From sweet messages to virtual romances, more and more people are entering into relationships with AI partners. And while some see in this a new kind of intimacy, others warn: when technology starts to love us the way we want, and not the way we deserve - maybe it's time for an alarm.

Inner voice

Love and the gods

The "New Testament" is nowhere ahead of its time and out of time except in its commitment to love, putting love at the center of both our lives and the entire world and universe, which could be anyone's private "religion" regardless of whether you believe the rest of that book or any other

Inner voice

Friendship, the relationship on which happiness depends

You only get to know yourself in a dialogue with a friend. And it's not about the fact that your friend should know something better than you or know you better than you know yourself, so that he can explain to you how you feel at any given moment. On the contrary, friendship presupposes equality, and getting to know oneself is based on a marked degree of honesty and the risk of sharing even the vague, embarrassing or dangerous.

Inner voice

The power of erotic love

After an intimate and intense shared experience, you get the impression that you have met someone in a very deep and at the same time not very clearly describable way. In fact, as the barriers came down, you opened yourself up to contact with all the inner contents of the other person, allowing them to gain deep insights into what you yourself hide from everyone else.

Inner voice

Oh, crazy heart…

Disappointment can truly hurt just as much as falling in love exhilarated. But even when you are happy, maybe just because you are happy, a lot changes in the personality, something develops, where there is a moral fabric, accumulated lies and self-delusions are burned. All that, among other things, hurts. If, for whatever reason, you are not happy, it knows that it hurts sharper and deeper than almost any other loss. But what about that? Pain passes, and when it comes, few things show you who you are like the moments when you don't back down from it

Science

Love and other experiments

As researchers explain love, can it really happen at first sight and are we monogamous by love or by force?

Inner voice

Respect, an ingredient you can't live without

As soon as they are organized into groups, humans, as well as the largest number of species of primates, monkeys and "lower" mammals, effectively establish hierarchical relationships in certain situations, and one of them imposes himself as the leader. Disrupting the hierarchy can be dangerous, usually leading to risk, conflict and fighting. Most of the group members therefore decide to follow the imposed rules and not challenge the leader at least. However, obedient behavior can be extremely inconsistent with our inner attitudes. What does genuine respect look like? What is it actually for? Why it matters and what is the root of self-esteem

Valentine's Day: A Chemical Analysis of Love

In a consumer society, love is good business. How to resist the call of gifts, when hormones stimulate brain activity, when serotonin, phenylethylamine, dopamine and oxytocin are poured out - the mixture known as love

Recommendation

Everything is ordinary, but not at all

There are thirty stories on one hundred and twenty pages, in each one there is an encounter. "Chasing Love" by Branislav Grković

Recommendation

Rediscovering Jelena Lengold

When you read a book that you have already read, its sentences are the same, but now they mean something different to you. And they reveal to you how much you have changed. And that over not many years

Personal attitude

New Year's wish: To hit the love that protects the head

I want us to turn off the rattlers as much as possible, to look around us and see if there is someone or something whom or what we can love (without worrying whether this or that person loves us), and to hit the love that protects the head, and everything else is, if it is without love, it spoils