a condensed romantic history
Monday 7 April 2008 | someone left a cookie
With a Dionysus partner (e.g., a cult leader), a Persephone woman gets madness [my father]. With an Ares partner, she gets physical abuse [the Monk]. With a Poseidon partner, she gets emotional abuse [op. cit.]. With Zeus, she gets cheated on [well…the Parisienne was really Aphrodite]. Hermes [the Footie Lout] and Apollo [the Republican and the ER Doctor] talk with her endlessly (with and without jokes, respectively). With Hephaestus [the Physicist, the Film Critic], she gets useful electronic gadgets.
But with a Hades partner, a Persephone woman goes through pain and suffering with her partner’s attention and support. She’s transformed to a new stage of personal growth.
(from Hearts and Minds: How Our Brains Are Hardwired for Relationships by Thomas David Kehoe—who writes wryly: “Everyone who read the book—both of them—loved it. Many people were extremely offended by the book. None of those people read it. Then there were some strange reviews on Amazon: five stars, but they seemed to have read some other book….In any case, not many people bought Hearts and Minds.” Which is why it is now a Wikibook.)
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I’m thinking the Hestia-Hermes thing is what is happening here. For all of the Macbook Air/iPhone he’s given me, my man is not a Hephaestus. Or maybe we’re Scylla and Charybdis.