{"product_id":"love-in-debt-the-cost-of-silenced-desire-9798248012848","title":"Love in Debt: The cost of silenced desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ailen Rodriguez Siqueira\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Interpersonal Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove in Debt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cost of silenced desire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAil�n Rodr�guez Siqueira\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are you paying to be loved?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLove in Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a manual or a confession. It is a rigorous and intimate inquiry into: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Mortgaged eros and desire that learned to ask for permission\u003cbr\u003e- Guilt as a broken compass organizing decisions and relationships\u003cbr\u003e- Emotional debt and the \"wonder woman\" syndrome\u003cbr\u003e- The misunderstanding of pleasure and the difficulty of receiving without negotiating\u003cbr\u003e- The possibility of repair without self-punishment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove in Debt\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause this book is not, in the end, about guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is about the return of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775706742935,"sku":"9798248012848","price":1181.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798248012848.webp?v=1777991975","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/love-in-debt-the-cost-of-silenced-desire-9798248012848","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}