Open Relationships
Overthink
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Beauvoir and Stade Say That There Are Two Kinds of Lovers
Beauvoir and sart say that there are two kinds of loves. There's necessary love and contingent love. And necessary love is the kind of love that the primary partners have for each other. They need this kind of love in order to get recognition of each other as essential. So they decided to initially have a period of monogamy, actually, and then open it up to contingent loves - which were sort of passing and more fleeting loves.
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