Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation — Romance as Market Structure

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This episode explores Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation by Eva Illouz as a systems-level examination of how modern romantic markets shape insecurity, commitment, and emotional power dynamics.

Rather than focusing on individual morality or personal solutions, this episode treats the book as a systems narrative — revealing how incentives, constraints, and feedback loops within contemporary dating culture produce instability that persists even when widely recognized.

This analysis prioritizes structure over intention, patterns over personalities, and systems over individual blame.

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