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A new philosophy of love

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Romantic Love the Most Important Kind of Love?

Do we still need the happily ever pantasies? Or as nitya would put it, are some illusions truly indispensable? What has it cost us to hold on to them? I think it's a dangerous phantasy. It kind of lures people towards chasing something which actually tends to make us kind of miserable. There can be a lot of shame around that if you are not interested in having a romantic relationship with any one. And peole who are looking for lives or loves that don't look anything like the fairy tale are just kind of excluded from nhe getgo and made to feel strange or weird for wanting what they want. Sometimes worse than strange and weird, just flat

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