Loving — The Hardest Love

Ashley Williams — Heart in the sand on a beach with a wave washing over it

• This was originally published on my personal blog in 2020. It has been edited as necessary.

This is part of a larger series on the Art of Loving by Erich Fromm.

And finally, we get to the hardest aspect of true love. Self-love. It certainly gets a bad rap since it is often confused with extreme self-interest and selfishness. It is equated with narcissism, both general self-focus and the…