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You Might Actually Be In Love With Your Best Friend

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Are You in Love With Your Friend?

There are so many different kinds of really charged, passionate feelings you can have with a mentor. But because we so often make sex and sexuality kind of the stoyan the shorthand for that kind of charge passion, then people are like, o am i actually in love with my therapist? And think about all the importance we place on the act of and not only culturally, like legally. Angela put it to me this way, i can't give my health care benefits to my sister, but i could go meet some stranger on the internet to night, marry them to morrow and give them my health care benefit. I mean, what if sex was not assumed to be a condition of marriage

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