Have you ever sat down and wondered what a healthy love relationship offers us as subjects? We recently discussed Kelly Oliver's Family Values: Nature and Nurture Subjects. Kelly Oliver “examines the ways in which nature and culture have been defined in relation to sexual difference, articulated as the difference between mother and father” (Oliver xi). The reality of relationships has been contested by some philosophers and the idea that everything can be achieved starting from self-love has been given credence. Kelly Oliver gives us a clear picture, through the text, of all the possible aspects of life that we can achieve within a healthy love relationship through the meeting of two or more individuals. These types of relationships can be developed with family, friends and lovers. I would like to accompany you readers on a fascinating journey to discover what, as a student of philosophy, I believe can be obtained from a structural relationship. We, as a society, have a distinct definition of what a healthy loving relationship is, but we as individuals have a mindset of important values or concepts that we place in a distinct order of how we believe a healthy relationship should progress. In this section, I will discuss what Oliver means by “social” and “embodied”. Before I dive into Oliver, I will begin by introducing readers to the broad definition of embodiment according to the dictionary, “embodiment may be an expression of or giving tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).” We have just seen how society explains what incarnation is, but now I must turn to Oliver's text. Oliver explains in his introduction that his philosophical work explains that “the opposition between nature and culture has been imagined as a war between the sexes… at the center of the paper… and physically. Positive factors associated with social and embodied relationships can lead to a longer, happier, and healthier life. By reflecting on your social and embodied relationships, you can interpret the positive outcomes of those relationships in your daily life. “There is no denying that the fantasy of the nuclear family is still central to our cultural imagination” (Oliver xvii). influential representations of an embodied father and a social mother, representations of motherhood and fatherhood in culture leave us with despondent images of isolation. Changing stereotypes and representations of our culture is an essential step in changing our family situation. As we try to recreate family structures outside the limitations and unachievable idea of the average family unit, we alter our representation of the possibility of love and ourselves..
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