A new kind of love
We have a very contrived notion of compatibility and what relationships are supposed to look like built up in our minds. Our collective, inherited romantic culture likes to imagine healthy functioning couples doing more or less everything together and being the center of each other's lives. The good couple is, we are told, one in which two people mean more or less everything to one another. In a sound relationship, we are supposed to meet our partner's needs in every area of existence--from being a good listener, financial advisor and fulfilling needs in the bedroom to being a good cook. We are supposed to lead our social lives alongside one another. Be the primary drawing board for one another's problems and complete each other in spirit and in matter. If they engage in pickleball with their friends over the weekend, we are supposed to take up interest in it or the least we could do is come and support their team or if we are interested in taking up a tri...
