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"When you ask for help from a friend or relative, the help you receive deepens your relationship. You may feel you owe them a favor--a meal when they're the one sick, a witness when they are the one in labor. But more than that...you have been intimately & vulnerably seen by them, & that disclosure of weakness colors your friendship. [Do] you see that weakness as continuous with your ID or as a jarring aberration?"
— Jan 17, 2026 05:17PM
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Megan
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But in a sustained relationship, you can trust that, as long as your mutual indebtedness keeps circulating, things work themselves out over the long run. The frequency with which debts, gifts, and favors are exchanged reduces the gravity of any single transaction--it's the relationship that persists. I wanted to enter into the intimacy of slight imbalance...
— Feb 01, 2026 02:50PM
Megan
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"Shifting seasons of need can feel like they erode that foundational equality. If one person starts to fall behind, to need more, he or she can feel like the junior partner. It's hard to tolerate interdependence if one is working from the assumption that a grown-up balances their books and doesn't ask more than he or she can repay." p. 36
— Nov 30, 2025 06:37PM
Megan
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Recognizing and honoring the differences between men and women means putting dependence at the heart of our account of what it means to be human. Dependence marks women more obviously and more intimately, but it is also impossible to tell the truth about who men are or treat them justly without accounting for our mutual dependence.
No just society can be built on the basis of a false anthropology. p.19
— Nov 15, 2025 10:35AM
No just society can be built on the basis of a false anthropology. p.19
