After middle age, these types of relationships between men and women are most likely to develop…
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“When someone is in your heart, in your bed, you share intimacy, you want to keep them as friends,” she said. “Sometimes it takes work, especially if you left them.”
Diane von Furstenberg Has No Regrets: ‘I Will Laugh When I Die’
The thing no one tells you about marriage is this: in order to form deep bonds of intimacy in heterosexual relationships, in order to truly love and be truly loved- both partners must do the very thing they’ve been taught their entire lives NOT to do. They must learn to disobey the script they were handed at birth called “how to be a man” and “how ... See more
that sustained proximity is the best route to the soul of someone; that unscripted gestures at unexpected junctures yield sweeter rewards than scripted ones on date night; that the “I love you” that counts most isn’t whispered with great ceremony on a hilltop in Tuscany. No, it slips out casually, spontaneously, in the produce section or over the d
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Relationships that last over time acquire their own unique persona. There are two people (more if there are children) together who form the relationship, as well as each of these people on their own, as individuals. The relationship, or family, actually has a character of its own that may not accurately reflect the people in it. This composite and
... See moreLaura Day • How to Rule the World from Your Couch
Another idea that had consensus assumed that romantic feelings exist, and you can only be friends if you’re able to maintain clear communication and work through them. It turns out that the assumption of a heterosexual “trap” threatening friendships is still very much alive — and we can assume it is stopping many men and women from exploring what m... See more
Ashley D'Arcy • Can Men and Women Actually Be Friends?
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light.