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dating site of that name) and with computer and other revolutionary forms of dating, and the 50/50 divorce rate, fishing is better than it ever was—and at all ages. On the other hand, loneliness is horrible and may win out and destroy your energy for dating, so perhaps you better love the one you’re with, the bird in the hand.
So, in summation, if your first big love doesn’t work out, there may be other great loves out there for you. But even the term “out there” is misleading. That there are more loves within you, is more precise. More efforts by evolution to get you to reproduce, or to at least do the things that usually lead to reproduction. You are capable of kindling the love spark within you with many people.
Yet again, despite how much you love someone specifically, it’s not as personal as you think. Evolution and the mental, chemical, and social products of evolution are going with you and your love, hand to hand, gonad to clitoris, love poetry to love poetry.
VII. The fundamentalism that your marriage
or relationship is a failure if it doesn’t last forever. Or to put it a different way, the only mentally healthy and morally acceptable sexual relationship is one that lasts forever.
I think the overall attitude about serious sexual relationships, be they sanctified by church and state or