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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

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The Intimate Partner

I think one of the things that we really want from people is a chance to invent ourselves a fresh. And I suppose this speaks to what makes romantic long-term relationships hard and why friendships can also be so fulfilling. But where, with any long-term partner, of defining them too tightly as what they have been,. all of us should have the chance to grow into someone new.

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