To care for friends and family and partners and self in spite of fights and failings and trauma and change - that’s what’s hard, and that’s what hurts. Human beings: We like to wallow!Įxcept that’s not quite it, is it? What really hurts isn’t love but loving, and all the small things that challenge it. Listen to Joni Mitchell’s Blue and try not to cry. Nicole Krauss’s novel The History of Love? Whew. The romantic flings and failures of Fleabag? Ouch. It’s a message regurgitated regularly by popular media in all formats. “Love hurts,” wails the Scottish rock singer Dan McCafferty in Nazareth’s famous cover of the Everly Brothers tune of the same name. Spoilers for Steven Universe and Steven Universe: The Movie below.
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