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Part 4 Further analyses Part four, further analyses and discussion.

So in our last instalment, we ended on our discussion of what love ought or could be

by describing what Carrie Jenkins sees as the best alternative to the happily ever after model,

which is eudaimonic love, in which he thinks we should be able to craft and decide what love means to us

and how we want to live our romantic lives. I think it's fair to say she doesn't give much in the way of

what that would involve. She gives us free reign to

decide how we want those relationships to play out. And so I thought it would be interesting,

valuable, not just for the sake of the discussion, but for listeners as well, to look at the idea

of love through the lenses of existentialism in Skyclery's wonderful book, Existentialism and Romantic Love.

So to remind listeners and to get us to start thinking about how these ideas relate to

romantic love, they'd be helpful to think about what the distinguishing features of an existentialist

philosophy involve.

And one of the central things is that choice and freedom, that we have the freedom to create our relationships and break them up when we'd like to.

Our expectations there should be created by ourselves rather than post on us by society.

That we have a responsibility that comes with that freedom, that we can choose how we want to live our lives and that

existence precedes essence, and that individuals are free to choose their relationships, and

those relationships are a reflection of the people that they choose to be. Also recognizes that

anxiety when it comes to choosing a relationship or crafting our own relationship.

I think Carrie Jenkins is that example of jam, the jam study, where people are given lots of

choice between jam and the fewer jams they get to choose from, the more like they are to buy jam.

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