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  The Love Clinic — Why Do People Fall for Unavailable Partners? Welcome to The Love Clinic. Today’s question is one that many people quietly recognise in their own lives: why do we sometimes fall for people who are emotionally unavailable? It is a pattern that appears again and again in modern relationships. Someone becomes fascinated with a partner who cannot fully commit, who sends mixed signals, or who seems distant just when intimacy begins to grow. At first glance, it might seem irrational. Why would anyone choose a relationship that cannot truly develop? Psychologists suggest that several powerful emotional forces can make unavailable partners strangely attractive. One reason is the psychology of pursuit. When something feels difficult to obtain, it can become more desirable. This is sometimes called the “scarcity effect.” When a person seems distant or elusive, the attention they do give may feel unusually valuable. Small gestures — a message, a compliment, a brief moment o...

Why Do People Fall in Love with Strangers? Welcome to the love podcast. Today we’re exploring a question that has fascinated poets, psychologists, and storytellers for centuries: why do people sometimes fall in love with complete strangers? It can happen in the most ordinary moments. Two people notice each other across a room. A brief conversation on a train feels unexpectedly meaningful. A glance, a smile, or a shared laugh suddenly seems charged with possibility. But what is actually happening in the mind when a stranger suddenly becomes someone who feels deeply important? Psychologists suggest that part of the answer lies in how the human brain processes novelty. We are naturally drawn to new experiences and unfamiliar faces. When we encounter someone we do not know, our brains begin rapidly filling in the gaps with imagination. Because we know very little about the stranger, we often project qualities onto them. We may imagine they are kinder, more interesting, or more compatible w...

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☕ Kindle Edition £0.00 or £2.24 to buy Paperback £7.99 incl. VAT Other New from £7.99 Read now Start your 30-day free trial Sarnia de la MareSarnia de la Mare Coffee Break Romance Shorts 1: The Judge and the Model and Other Stories (Mills and Swoon) Kindle Edition by Sarnia de la Mare (Author), Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Author), The Marchioness of Dorchester (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Part of: Mills and Swoon (2 books) See all formats and editions From the author of Mills & Swoon comes another quartet of irresistible tales — brief enough for a coffee, deep enough to linger all day. Each collection is paired with a poem — a literary encore in true Mills & Swoon fashion, by her Eminence The Marchioness of Dorchester with sharp and shocking rhymes of the heart. The Marchioness of Dorchester (fl. 1660–1675) is the poetic alter ego of British author and artist Sarnia de la Maré FRSA. Conceived as a 17th-century noblewoman, salon hostess, and secret writer of romantic verse, t...

Penelope Fairlie had never faltered. 'Faltering is for amateurs and the mentally ill', she would say.  At fifty-two, she was the embodiment of composure. That rare breed of Englishwoman who moved through life as if time itself obeyed her schedule. She was a beacon of virtue and as disappointing as a soggy digestive, though no one would ever tell her due to her ability to petrify anyone within her orbit, even other people's dogs in Hyde Park. She lived in a tall, ordered house in Belgravia with her husband, Charles, a respected tax barrister, and their Pomeranian, Bertie, whose coiffure was definitely worse than his bark, styled by an expensive personal dog groomer from Hampstead. There were no children, a fate that had become a new normal many years before. If one dared to asked Judge Penelope Fairlie when she last felt the surge of a carnal wave, she would probably tell you it was when she saw Julio Iglesias in concert for her twenty-first birthday Charles Fairlie was a ...