Sublime

The Absent but Implicit:

Persons make meaning of an experience through contrasting it with other experiences, so that in order to distinguish something as a problem we must be contrasting it to some preferred experience. To know the experience of hate we must have some sense of love.

Source: Madigan, S. (2019). Narrative therapy (2nd ed.)

Henrik Karlsson captures the mechanism simply: relationships are co-evolutionary loops. Beyond sociology, it feels like spiritual physics. Who we choose to orbit defines, over time, the texture and colour palette of our becoming. Love becomes a technology of transformation, a living interface between selves. To love well is to take part in someone