Love: All That Matters argues that the modern view on love has been distorted by a fixation on romantic love that has depleted our resources for living through the darker sides of love, whereas in fact there are several ways in which humans give and experience love over the course of their lives and it is best to have access to them all.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1 First love: Narcissism
• 2 It takes two
• 3 Myths of romance
• 4 An evolutionary interlude: What is sex for?
• 5 Is three a crowd?
• 6 A painful interlude: Love's knowledge
• 7 Friendship and belonging
• 8 A third interlude: Is love a feeling?
• 9 Love, human and divine
• Appendix I: 100 ideas
• Appendix II: Making love, body and soul – Plato on love
• Select bibliography
• Acknowledgements