Dr. Seth Meyers, Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Seth Meyers, Clinical Psychologist

Monday, August 10, 2015

On Love: Can You Truly Love Two Romantic Partners at the Same Time?


A true sociopath can love two romantic partners at the same time, but most sociopaths will be lying, manipulating and hiding one of those partners from the other. Can your average person love two people at the same time? Think about how most people find it difficult to date more than one person at a time! Most of us couldn't - or wouldn't - love two people at the very same time.

I find that some perfectly good (but escapist) people have gotten themselves into situations where they love different people for fairly predictable reasons, among them: his wife has been sick and he fell in love with someone else; she felt unappreciated by her husband and had an affair with someone from work; and he was struggling with a mid-life crisis and fell in love with a younger woman to get his groove back.

Think about your own life for a moment. Could you love two people at the same time?

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