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Best of: A new philosophy of love

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Cost of Multiple Relationships

I think it's asking a lot of anyone to be everything their partner needs all the time forever. I'm then stretching my resources to cover everybody that I love. To me that difference just isn't a real difference. What matters is how we care for one another, how we show up for each other and build meaning together with one another. Whether we call it a relationship or not and whether we're having sex, you know, that doesn't matter so much. It matters what we're really doing, being alive, right? That's the part that's important. But we've got very hung up on the idea that what's really important is how much sex we're having or whether

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