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Best of: A new philosophy of love

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Romantic Love

Do we still need that fantasy? I think it's dangerous fantasy. It kind of lures people towards chasing something, the pursuit of which actually tends to make us kind of miserable. People who are looking for lives or loves that don't look anything like the fairy tale are just kind of excluded from the get-go and made to feel strange or weird for wanting what they want. There can be a lot of shame around that. If you are not interested in having a romantic relationship with anyone ... there can't be one story for everybody.

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