The Cost of Holding
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: To love someone is to remain exposed to them. Not merely to tolerate their presence or to feel warmth in their direction, but to keep open a channel through which they can reach you — and through which they can hurt you. Love is the decision, renewed daily and often unconsciously, to not seal yourself off from someone whose actions you cannot control. This is expensive. Not metaphorically expensive — structurally expensive.
Author: Gebendorfer, Jonas Jakob
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140195155
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