Angels and Demons: The Perils of Friends with Benefits Relationships.

Amae
3 min readFeb 16, 2023
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The Psychological Foundations

My quest is to maintain my core values (The Angel) without succumbing to (The Demons): the shadow: the negative (maladaptive) behaviours accompanying my quests for the ideal.

‘The Angel’ came from the longings for my mother’s love, ‘the ideal’ being the idealised love I believed I should…

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Amae

Interested in people, nature, science and technology, and history. MSc in Research Methods (Birkbeck), MA Industrial Design (UAL)