🧩 Philosophy 4d ago · Maria Popova

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
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“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them.”

We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions are made of concepts — the brain’s coping mechanism for the blooming buzzing confusion of what we are. We label, we classify, we contain — that is how we parse the maelstrom of experience into meaning. It is a useful impulse — without it, there would be no science or story

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