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From enchantment to bitterness: Where does love go? demonstrates love according to Carpinejar
In Where Does Love Go?, Carpinejar presents 42 texts on love, heartbreak, marriage, divorce, longing, and other feelings that characterize relationships. With his undeniably powerful poetic prose, the author explains what goes on inside the reader's heart: from enchantment to bitterness, from passion to disenchantment, from companionship to cynicism. It's all here. A unique book, from an author with a unique voice.
From the cover signed by the author:
"You who opened this book wondering if you need it, you don't need it, you need yourself. You're always searching for a word that confirms what you desire. You're looking for a guarantor, a writer who can recommend you back to someone you fought with, someone to name and protect your madness and your most unpredictable feelings, with the ability to explain what you feel and translate your torments. But you already know what you want, there's no convincing you otherwise. Your friends have tried and shown you that your relationship is useless or has no future. You don't believe them; you only believe in miracles. And how can you justify a miracle, especially to someone who no longer has faith?
You don't need me, you need yourself. Maybe you don't have the courage to follow your heart's desire. Life has complicated your reconciliation, and saying "I love you" isn't as easy as it used to be. It's not just opening your mouth and extending your arms. "I love you" hurts, it's full of hurt and scars, of bitter roots and resentment. "I love you" doesn't resolve differences. "I love you" is no longer the redeeming, magical phrase that dissolves arguments.
I understand what you're going through: your anger, your bitterness, your cynicism, your disenchantment. You've realized that awareness of problems yields no reward, that reason offers no comfort, that revenge or forgiveness don't restore peace, that rock bottom never equals our lowest point. You seem normal, but everyone stops being normal when they fall in love and break up.
If you're hoping for a solution, I have only one certainty that will bring relief later on: you won't give up. You won't give up easily.
When you say the relationship is over, it's because you're looking for another way to start over."
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