Summary

In New Relationship Energy, Jack and Elizabeth focus almost exclusively on each other as their relationship grows, and Elizabeth becomes worried because she feels as if she needs Jack, and she realizes he could leave her. Later Elizabeth tells Jack that she has been studying love and she has learned that people all over the world have come to the same conclusions about love without having spoken to each other. They have determined “that love is both part of the body and separate from the body. It’s intrinsic to us but also divisible from us” (121). She says that people believed in a soul before they understood most aspects of the body. “There were different names for it, but…it was the essence or distillation of a person, the person’s truest self, usually...