How to Tell if That Feeling Is True Love or Dysfunction

Tortured romance isn’t actually romantic

Viv Manning-Schaffel
Forge
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4 min readJul 26, 2019

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TThe oft-covered Persuaders’ classic “It’s a Thin Line Between Love and Hate,” tells the story of a woman driven to violence by her partner’s cheating. The entire premise of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is the agonizing relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff — a dysfunctional, torturous…

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Forge
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