As Wuthering Heights returns to cultural conversation, one relationship expert is challenging the romantic lens through which we still view obsessive, high-conflict relationships.
For nearly two centuries, we’ve been sold the same story: that obsessive, all-consuming love is the ultimate romantic ideal and Heathcliff has been framed as the ultimate tortured romantic hero: brooding, obsessive, unable to live without Catherine. Intense. All-consuming. Devoted beyond reason.
But strip away the windswept moors and gothic atmosphere, and what remains is something far less poetic: coercive control, emotional punishment, obsession, and revenge after rejection.
So why are we still calling it passion?
According to divorce coach and qualified solicitor Nawal Houghton, founder of
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