Love is constitutively unstable across three distinct dimensions

Evidence

We have just defined the triple destructibility of love: in the first place it is, in essence, a deception and a reference to infinity since to love is to wish to be loved, hence to wish that the Other wish that I love him. … The more I am loved, the more I lose my being, the more I am thrown back on my own responsibilities, on my own power to be. … In the second place the Other’s awakening is always possible; at any moment he can make me appear as an object—hence the lover’s perpetual insecurity. In the third place love is an absolute which is perpetually made relative by others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 960

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Love is the enterprise of pursuing an unrealizable unity with the Other; The ideal of loving unity with the Other is structurally unrealizable and breeds conflict — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 941

Broader Connections

• The ideal of loving unity with the Other is structurally unrealizable and breeds conflict #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 941
• Love is the enterprise of pursuing an unrealizable unity with the Other #expands (0.80)