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Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate

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The Negative Relationship: A Warning Tale

I don't think she's deluded I mean I think she has like a lack of self-knowledge. To me what makes the relationship dysfunctional isn't either of them in a vacuum it's that she is so much more devoted to Danoon than he is to her. Her chosen replacement doesn't work out though it's also ambiguous as to whether she didn't work out for Danoon or she didn't worked out for the community because of the way that the note is worded. There is a kind of emotional asymmetry in the relationship that seems really dark to me. Yeah that's like what makes the book to me like a story of a doomed relationship rather than and like a sort

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