We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another’s nerves. Respect for individual identity. Mutual support, without being intrusive. So many people believe they are disqualified from having a better family experience, primarily because they compare their own family with the mythic ideal, and their reality falls short. Is that a fair standard to judge against?”
In the pages of Why Do I Love These People?, Po Bronson takes us on an extraordinary journey.
It begins on a river in Texas, where a mother gets trapped underwater and has to bargain for her own life and that of her kids.
Then, a father and his daughter return to their tiny rice-growing village in China, hoping to rekindle their love for each other inside the walls of his childhood home.
Next, a son puts forth a riddle, asking us to understand what his first experience of God has to do with his Mexican American mother.
Every step–and every family–on this journey is real.
Calling upon his gift for powerful nonfiction narrative and philosophical insight, Bronson explores the incredibly complicated feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us to two people–a father and his son, a daughter and her mother, a wife and her husband–and we come to know them as intimately as characters in a novel, following the story of their relationship as they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all families endure.
Some of the people manage to save their relationship, while others find a better life only after letting the relationship go. From their efforts, the wisdom in this book emerges. We are left feeling emotionally raw but grounded–and better prepared to love, through both hard times and good time.
In these twenty mesmerizing stories, we discover what is essential and elemental to all families and, in doing so, slowly abolish the fantasies and fictions we have about those we fight to stay connected to.
In Why Do I Love These People?, Bronson shows us that we are united by our yearnings and aspirations: Family is not our dividing line, but our common ground.
From the Hardcover edition.
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坦白说,这本书的阅读体验更像是一次自我审问的大会。它不是一本让你读完后感觉“世界很美好”的书,它更像是你必须戴着防毒面具才能进入的思维密室。作者的论证逻辑无懈可击,尤其是在探讨社会文化对“爱”的构建和规训时,我感到震撼。我们从小被灌输的那些关于“好伴侣”、“好朋友”的模板,在这本书面前被一一拆解,暴露出其背后隐藏的权力结构和文化偏见。我经常需要停下来,合上书本,在房间里踱步很久,消化那些信息。它让我意识到,我们对某些人的情感依恋,可能根本不是源于“爱”本身,而是源于对某种特定社会角色的完美适配。比如,对一个需要被拯救的对象产生强烈的责任感,这种“爱”的驱动力,究竟是慷慨还是隐藏的控制欲?书中对这些边界模糊地带的探讨,尖锐得让人心痛,但也无比真实。这绝对不是一本适合在咖啡馆里轻松翻阅的书籍,它需要你全身心的投入和面对现实的勇气。
评分初次翻开这本厚厚的书,我本以为会是一本流于表面的情感随笔,毕竟书名听起来带着一丝戏谑的自嘲。然而,事实证明我的预判错得离谱。这本书的学术严谨性令人叹服,它巧妙地将社会学、心理学,甚至神经科学的最新研究成果熔铸一炉,构建了一个宏大而又精密的理论框架,用来解释我们为什么会一次又一次地被那些“明显不适合我们”的人吸引。作者的叙事节奏极为老道,他不会一开始就抛出重磅炸弹,而是通过层层递进的案例和数据,慢慢地将读者引入他精心铺设的认知迷宫。最让我印象深刻的是他对“重复性创伤”在成人关系中的体现的论述,那种犹如宿命般的循环,是如何通过潜意识的驱动力被不断重演的。读到后面,我几乎是带着一种近乎痉挛的紧张感在阅读,生怕下一页就会揭示出我人生中最隐秘的那个“不能说的秘密”。这本书的行文风格冷峻、克制,但字里行间却蕴含着巨大的情感能量,仿佛一位经验丰富的外科医生,拿着冰冷的工具,却在进行一场救赎式的解剖。
评分我必须承认,这本书的视角极度个人化,但它的力量却在于其普适性。它没有使用宏大的叙事,而是聚焦于人际关系中最微小、最私密的片段——那些争吵时的语气、沉默时的眼神、以及那些未曾说出口的请求。作者在分析这些微观互动时所展现出的洞察力,简直像是拥有了X光视力。我常常觉得,作者一定是潜伏在我生命中的某个人,才得以写出如此精准的观察。更令人称奇的是,全书的语言风格像是一位饱经风霜的智者在耳边低语,既有哲学的深度,又不失生活的温度。他没有用冰冷的术语来解释一切,而是用充满画面感的比喻和细腻的情感描写,将复杂的心理过程具象化。读完后,我没有立刻“治愈”任何问题,但那种“被理解”的感觉,比任何解决方案都来得珍贵。它教会我,接受这些混乱和矛盾,本身就是一种深刻的成熟。这本书,与其说是一本书,不如说是一次漫长而必要的自我对话。
评分我通常不读这类“深度剖析”的书,因为我总觉得它们太过沉重,会破坏掉生活本应有的那种轻盈感。但这本书完全不同,它不是在指责或批判,而更像是一面高清晰度的镜子,将关系中的那些不和谐音符放大,却又以一种近乎诗意的语言去描绘它们。作者对“依恋风格”的阐述,尤其深刻,他没有简单地将人分为“安全型”和“不安全型”,而是细化出了数十种过渡和混合状态,每一种都对应着我们在特定情境下的真实反应。我尤其喜欢他引用的一些文学片段来佐证观点,这种跨学科的引用,让原本枯燥的理论变得鲜活起来,充满了画面感。例如,书中对一段长期不健康关系中双方“共生”现象的描述,让我联想到某些古典悲剧中的人物关系,那种你中有我,我中有你的窒息感,被描摹得淋漓尽致。这本书的伟大之处在于,它没有试图让你“逃离”那些复杂的关系,而是教会你如何在理解它们运作机制的基础上,更智慧地与之共存。
评分这本书简直是社交关系研究的里程碑,读完之后我感觉自己对“人”这种生物的理解被彻底颠覆了。作者似乎拥有某种穿透人心的魔力,能够精准地捕捉到那些我们普段羞于承认、或根本意识不到的互动模式中的微妙张力。我特别欣赏他对“爱”这一概念的解构,它不是那种浪漫化的、肤浅的词藻堆砌,而是深入到日常琐碎、甚至可以说是丑陋的细节之中,去挖掘人与人之间那种复杂、矛盾却又根深蒂固的联结。比如书中对家庭成员之间那种难以言喻的义务感和情感依赖的分析,简直是直击灵魂。我常常在想,那些我们自以为是出于无私的奉献,背后究竟藏着多少未被满足的自我投射和对孤独的恐惧?这本书没有给我简单的答案,而是提供了一套全新的分析工具,让我能够以一种审视陌生人的客观角度,重新审视我生命中那些最亲密的关系。它迫使你直面自己性格中的那些“不完美”是如何与他人的缺陷相互吸引、相互成就(或相互毁灭)的。这种对人性幽暗面的坦诚,是许多同类主题作品所回避的,也正是其价值所在。
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