Thwarted Romantic Love: The Killer of Lifelong Love

Amidst a generalized emotional illiteracy, increasingly widespread is the damage caused by thwarted emotions when emotionality encounters an obstacle: it becomes obstinate, catches fire, and overwhelms. If the emotionality is such that it leads a person to feel a romantic attraction in the presence of an obstacle, as marriage is for a married person, it can erupt to the point of obsession. Thwarted romantic love overwhelms everything in its path and in many cases leads to the break-up of strong family ties. The crisis of the family is its most notable social harm: to avoid so much suffering, it makes sense to study this phenomenon before it happens because it is not easy to recover good sense when one is blind. For this purpose, Ugo Borghello has written Thwarted Romantic Love.