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#314 🔸 Why you can love someone and not respect them and what that does to desire

7 hours ago 3 minute read 1 comment luciman

The relationship with your own body, which I wrote about last time, profoundly affects the way we receive and offer intimacy. But there is another foundation of healthy intimate life that we always assume is present and rarely check: respect. Not a...

#314 🔸 Why you can love someone and not respect them and what that does to desire

#288 🔸 Without this ingredient, neither love nor desire survives over time

28 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

The balance of needs I wrote about last time cannot exist without a foundation that supports all the others: mutual respect. Not as a declared value framed on the wall, but as a living practice, present in the way you speak, in the way you listen,...