Conversations on Love

‘Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.’

When I asked psychiatrist Dr Megan Poe why people lose their sense of self in relationships, she said it’s sometimes because they’re trying to ‘echo-locate the other and not reveal the self’ and merge with them.

can make each other laugh and be silly and revert back to the children we were. We can also be brutally honest with each other as adults, in a way I don’t think you necessarily can with friends. With a sibling, because of that honesty, you know that when they are on your side it comes from a very pure place. If you were doing something that was bad for you, or you were in the wrong, your sibling would probably tell you.