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RELATIONSHIPS/LOVE/HATE
Love and Hate Are 4 Letter Words That Are Often Interchangeable
How often do you hate someone you love?
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
— Coretta Scott King
Do you know what Coretta Scott King is saying here?
Suddenly someone you love very much does something that stabs you in the heart. Someone you love deep down…..
But right now, you hate them.
Depending on the relationship, you may never rebound from this hurt.
What is it called when you love someone but hate them too?
Emotional Ambivalence:
The simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions about something. It’s what we think of as being “torn.”
Emotional ambivalence means that love and hate don’t substitute for each other but rather coexist without displacing one another.
This means we don’t feel hate first and then love, or vice versa.
Emotional Ambivalence can occur after a romantic breakup. We may still love our former partners, but we hate them for not loving us any longer or for finding someone…
