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“If we value just romantic love, or value romantic love higher than other loves, then we isolate. We stick with our partners. And when our partners, human beings with flaws and limits, inevitably do not live up to our collective fantasy, we are bereft. So, we decide to go on a diet, to go shopping, to drink, to do drugs, to buy new cars. We buy shit to fill the hole. And the hole is there because we bought the lie that romantic love is the only love that really matters. But what if we valued all love as equal? What if we treated our friends like the loves of our lives? What if we treated our partners as human beings who we loved, but not “more” than another love in our life?”
― Beca Salmon, The Third Option