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Our family members hopefully meet our need to feel lovable—accepted for who we are more than for what we do. Even if we fail, they will still love us. Virtually all relationship behaviors stem from this need to be viewed as worthy and lovable—or from the pain that arises when we feel we aren’t seen this way. These two needs are at the core of any individual’s set of attachment needs. And, the ability to intimately connect with others relies upon feeling worthy and lovable.
Secure Love
Julie Menanno
Reading the frequent confessions of indolence and ineptitude that fill Montaigne’s book, it is easy to see why Antoinette thought the estate was neglected during the time he was in charge of it. He found practical affairs a bore and avoided them as much as possible. It is more surprising that she should make the same complaint against her husband Pierre, for he does not come across in the Essays that way at all. Montaigne makes his father sound like a dynamo of a man, devoted to his duties and always at work on home improvements—restless and interventionist to a fault.
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
Hastings has tried to explain away his new romance with the studios and networks by saying that Netflix has a lot to learn from Hollywood, singling out the studios’ skill in exploiting franchises like Star Wars. But franchises like Star Wars, as Disney+ has skill-lessly shown, are often graveyards for creativity, and mastering the machinery necessary to manufacture them is the last thing Netflix needs to learn from Hollywood.
Pandora's Box
Peter Biskind
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