Matters Of The Heart – Weekly Global News | October 21st, 2022

Who’s cheating on whom? Who’s creating love stories that inspire? Who’s filing for a divorce? Which crimes of passion will make your jaws drop to the floor? If like us, you too live and breathe matters of the heart, then this is the space to watch out for. Every week, Bonobology will scour through headlines from across the world to bring you the most hard-hitting, inspiring, heartbreaking stories of love. So, grab your coffee, and read about the things people did for love this week.

1.  “I was in an abusive relationship for two years,” says Abigail Breslin

Amid Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Little Miss Sunshine actress shared her own experience on an Instagram post. She wrote, “As a DV survivor, I felt compelled to write a little about my story. I was in a very abusive relationship for close to two years.”

The American actress and singer added, “I was beaten on a regular basis, locked into rooms and raced to pretend everything was ok and normal while dealing with intense injuries. I  would use concealer and caked on foundation to hide any and all bruises, because in some way, I still cared for this person.”

2. The Minds Journal shares an optical illusion

If you want to know about your tendencies in relationships, check out this optical illusion, shared by the Minds Journal. In the following image, what is it that you notice first? The results are given below the image.

• If you see the face of a man: You put up a wall on your personality
• person in the coat on the right: You have a strong urge to feel accepted in a relationship
• baby on the table: You tend to feel helpless in relationships, with a need to be nurtured
• man reading a book: You crave a spiritual connection from your relationship
• two people in white: You feel a need to be challenged in your romantic relationship

3. Malaysian woman loses RM 1.4 million in love scam

The 54-year-old woman befriended a man on Facebook in April. He claimed to be a ‘South African engineer working in New Zealand’. They started talking a lot on WhatsApp and she fell for him. 

He then asked her for money to buy raw materials for his project. As a result of trusting him, she made 37 transactions to four different accounts totalling RM1,445,900. When he refused to pay it back, she realized that she had been scammed and filed a police complaint. Consequently, three African suspects have been arrested by the police.

4. Emma Watson says she has the ‘purest love’ for Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton

The Harry Potter star said that despite the rocky beginning, she and 35-year-old Tom Felton have grown to be dear friends and ‘soulmates’. Even Tom Felton agreed to this, saying that he wasn’t ever romantically involved with the actress but has always admired her.

Initially, Emma Watson was a nine-year-old kid who was obsessed with Tom and “desperate for his attention”. She “followed him around like a puppy”. But their relationship has evolved into the “purest love”. 

5. Study says asexual relationships need the same ingredients as any other relationship

The study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, looked at a sample of 485 people who identified themselves as asexual and are currently dating. William Chopik, a psychology professor in MSU, stated, “Although asexuals don’t have the desire for sexual relationships, they nevertheless form romantic relationships and those connections look at least somewhat similar to non-asexuals’ romantic relationships.”

“We found that the same ingredients predict success in these relationships, so they’re not weird, bizarre, worse than or much different at all from non-asexual people’s relationships. The hope is that this destigmatizes asexual people’s relationships as just as satisfied and common as non-asexual people’s relationships.”