This is sad. I definitely love my friends and have a deep emotional and intellectual connection with them.
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Believe there’s a sex difference here. Women typically have larger more diverse webs of intimate attachment whereas men tend to get all of their intimacy from their mate. Each strategy has advantages/disadvantages.
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There is indeed a sex difference as far as I know, also why men have a hard time after divorce, the one person they confide in most intimately is suddenly gone
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Part of the reason for this weird attitude, I think, is that it's not uncommon for certain people to assume that a line should be drawn under their close friendships (especially but not exclusively with opposite sex) when they find their life-partner. Becomes self-fulfilling.
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Happily, I get the feeling that, along with things like an increase in more equal sharing of parenting, it's an increasingly antiquated attitude.
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(That doesn't quite make sense, but I hope you get my drift... )
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What I find a strange attitude is the people (mostly a WEIRD, secular, Western, Educated, Democratic etc.) that think their attempts to strip the meaning and intensity out of sex are somehow "progressive", and that anyone who disagrees is "antiquated". Sex is bigger for some.
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Eh? There's no part of what I said, or what Helen said, that puts any limit on the "intensity" of sex. Have at it. Point is, why does that subtract from the meaningfulness of other forms of profound personal connection?
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The potential meaningfulness of sexual connection doesn't "subtract" meaning from other forms of personal connection. It just means that, when the potential for it is there, it has the potential to add more profundity. It's about what bar people set for "profound" or "deep".
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It is indeed. A life in which sex is your *only* route to any profound/deep personal relationship is a pretty peculiar and impoverished one, imho.
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Same old missing the point, some people have stricter standards, and, in their viewpoint, what you call "deep" is shallow, and impoverished in comparison. Basically, you're saying "better a pig, satisfied, than Socrates, dissatisfied", and feeling superior defending the pig.
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