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Love in Debt: The cost of silenced desire

by Ailen Rodriguez Siqueira
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798248012848
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 154
  • Original Price: GBP 10.42
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 214 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Interpersonal Relations

Love in Debt
The cost of silenced desire
Ail�n Rodr�guez Siqueira

What are you paying to be loved?

From early on, we learn that love must be earned. That we should behave, not inconvenience anyone, be grateful even for what does not nourish us. That desiring too much might threaten our belonging. Almost without noticing, we begin to love from compensation instead of freedom.

In Love in Debt, Ail�n Rodr�guez Siqueira explores with depth and clarity how guilt and emotional debt shape the way we bond. Through personal narrative, clinical cases, mythology and cultural analysis, she reveals how female desire has been domesticated, how sacrifice became virtue, and how many relationships are sustained more by loyalty or gratitude than by authentic choice.

This is not a manual or a confession. It is a rigorous and intimate inquiry into:

- Mortgaged eros and desire that learned to ask for permission
- Guilt as a broken compass organizing decisions and relationships
- Emotional debt and the "wonder woman" syndrome
- The misunderstanding of pleasure and the difficulty of receiving without negotiating
- The possibility of repair without self-punishment

Blending symbolic psychology, neuroscience, somatic awareness and myth, Rodr�guez Siqueira shows that guilt is not identity but cultural inheritance. That sacrifice is not love. That gratitude is not the same as choice. And that desire, even when silenced, never truly disappears.

Love in Debt is both unsettling and liberating. It invites you to look at your scars with honesty, to distinguish between loyalty and self-erasure, and to gently disobey the narratives that taught you to disappear in order to be loved.

Because this book is not, in the end, about guilt.

It is about the return of desire.

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