Dee Salmon

Girlies at brunch, like mother and daughter time talking about this courtly love.

And they actually got so serious about it that they made these like strict rules that people had to follow if they wanted to basically practice courtly love.

What were the rules?

The rules were this.

So true love was viewed as existing outside of marriage.

Jealousy increases the feeling of love and you cannot love without jealousy.

Interesting.

Low-key toxic, but okay.

Secrecy is crucial.

So, basically, if the love was made public, it was not going to endure.

Like, you were never going to, like, make it work.

Also, they talked a lot about the rule of, like, if love is really easy to attain, then it's, like, not really love.

Like, you have to, like, go through adversity and it has to be.

Love is hard.

Love is hard to get.

Exactly.

Wow.

And interestingly as well, they basically made it so that like the lady or the princesses or the high noble women in these scenarios were the prize and the men who were trying to get them, a.k.a.

their knights, were like the servants.

So there was this power dynamic of like the woman was like the dominatrix kind of vibe.