You Deserve An Easy Kind of Love

Who needs pulse-raising, spine-tingling, breathtaking carnal attraction…that stuff ruins everything.

Jonathan Morris Schwartz
Hello, Love

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Finding that mental space between loving someone just enough for it to hurt…but not enough to put you in the fetal position if you break up.

Comfortably numb love

Somewhere between neurotic, soul-crushing, obsessive love, and “You’re just a piece of meat,” lies an overlapping intersection illustrated in the above Venn Diagram, where the perfect relationship resides — a partnership with just enough spark to make you feel young again but not enough to derail your mind from enjoying it — an “easy love.”

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You deserve someone who makes you feel alive. Someone who enjoys doing what you do. Nothing too manic — not too cold, not too hot, the Goldilocks of love, a seamless companionship so comfortable it pierces the bonds of normalcy and mundaneness. A rare eclipse of the…

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Jonathan Morris Schwartz
Hello, Love

Jonathan Morris Schwartz is a speech language pathologist living in Ocala, Florida writing about love, politics, philosophy, and consciousness.