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Johanna Rozenblum (clinical psychologist)
For twenty years, L’Amour est dans le pré has been helping farmers find the right fit in a world that is not very conducive to romantic encounters. But are some professions really linked to a chaotic love life? We asked a psychologist.
Is being a farmer a guarantee of misfortune in love? This is what the program Love is in the meadow suggests. Since 2005, the show aims to provoke meetings, through the broadcasting of portraits, letters and datings among single farmers in search of true love.
Love to spare but a loneliness difficult to fill
Season after season, the candidates do not seem to lack assets: endearing and authentic personalities, love to spare, all in a particularly Instagrammable bucolic setting close to nature. The speech, however, is intended to be more disillusioned: widowers, men and women left, who have neither the time nor the opportunity to meet people, and a feeling of loneliness to be filled very present. Is this more present among farmers than elsewhere?
Some jobs are more isolating than others.
When consulted on the subject, psychologist Johanna Rozenblum confided that there are indeed professions that require a greater investment than others, and agriculture is one of them.”These are professions that require physical and psychological dedication, as well as a lot of time, to function, and that force these professionals to put their private lives aside because, unfortunately, not everything is compatible.”
These are also jobs that isolate people socially and do not encourage meeting people (alone in your wheat field).All of this combined means that a romantic relationship, or simply investing oneself, having an emotional life becomes complicated.”
With an added layer of fragility.”We also understand that over time all this can worsen: the feeling of isolation, the loss of confidence, the feeling of not having a life, or of having too few opportunities to meet the right person grow, feeding real suffering,”emphasizes the psychologist.
So if you meet a farmer looking for love, don’t get the wrong problem or question: they are not worse in love or cursed than others, they are simply very involved in their job out of duty… but also passionate. Don’t let them take to the fields!
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