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7 takes on falling sanely in love • Malcolm Ocean

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What if instead of falling madly in love, you fell sanely in love? Sanity is underrated. In particular, if you fall madly in love, you might find it hard to tell what to do about that love, eg whether to commit or get out. Retaining your sanity allows you to navigate that. I don’t usually write listicles but this does seem like a pretty good format for summarizing many of the ideas that I’ve been developing over the last year and will be sharing in my upcoming course The Mating Dance: finding your center in courtship. This question is more important than making the relationship succeed in any particular way. If you try to make the relationship become something in particular, but it doesn’t want to be, you’re inviting a world of suffering. Put another way, the question is: what does this relationship naturally want to be? It might be that you’re totally fit to be intellectual companions or business partners, or you’re fit to be hot late-night lovers, but not fit to be spouses. And if yo

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