What is Love?

Send us Fan MailErich Fromm argued in The Art of Loving that love is a skill — and that most people are bad at it not because they are unloving but because they have never treated it as something that requires practice and development. This episode builds on Fromm's framework to examine love as a discipline made up of care, responsibility, respect, and knowledge, and contrasts it with the modern romantic model in which love is something that happens to you rather than something you build. We tie together the season's themes — forgiveness as love under strain, loyalty as love over time, the Golden Rule as love generalized — and arrive at the question that may be the most important one of the season: not whether you are loved, but whether you are becoming someone capable of loving well.Support the showQuestion Everything!