Love Is The Answer = Myth, Peril and Prison

Elizabeth M. Johnson, MA
5 min readJul 10, 2019

“All you need is love.”

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

“Good girls love bad boys.”

Combine these hackneyed platitudes with everyday women turned princess, the biggest party you’ll ever host, gowns with handmade lace trains and the social pressure to be coupled and you, too, will believe the hype. It’s almost impossible not to. But I’m here to tell you, stepping out in the peak of wedding season, that love is never The Answer.

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Elizabeth M. Johnson, MA

I write about trauma, relationships and how we make decisions. And talk about all of it on my podcast, Wondermine. Big reader, big eater. #SayNoMore. She/Her.