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"As Chen argues in Ace, “there is overlap and no clean separation” between romantic love and platonic love. You could say romantic relationships and platonic partnerships, too, bear a family resemblance."
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"Romantic relationships may only bear a family resemblance to one another, but there’s a common factor that I think explains their privileged status today ... the value of having a long-term teammate."
— Jan 25, 2025 09:24PM
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"Romantic relationships may only bear a family resemblance to one another, but there’s a common factor that I think explains their privileged status today ... the value of having a long-term teammate."
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"A lot of people share this dream to live with friends as they age. In 2011, a group of eight friends had an architect design a compound of tiny homes for them to retire in together, balancing their desire for both privacy and shared space. They called this community on the Llano River in Texas the “Llano exit strategy”; the press dubbed it “Bestie Row.” "
— Jan 30, 2025 07:02AM
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"The legendary white middle-class family of the 1950s,” the historian Elaine Tyler May writes, “was not, as common wisdom tells us, the last gasp of ‘traditional’ family life with roots deep in the past." ... Despite being an anomaly, this period has become the source of so much contemporary nostalgia and the yardstick against which other families are now measured.
— Jan 29, 2025 10:42PM
