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A guy once told me about how he met his girlfriend. He was dating this girl named Leah and it wasn’t going so well, so he started confiding in her friend Sarah, and he was totally unconstricted around Sarah, just said whatever he actually felt. He didn’t care what she thought of him since he was madly in love with Leah. Well, things fell apart with Leah, but he ended up becoming best friends with Sarah, and then she fell in love with him. I always wondered whether the reason Sarah fell in love with him was because he was able to be so totally open with her. Like, if he’d been as relaxed and without agenda around Leah, would she have been more in love with him? Or was he just inherently more compatible with Sarah? What is it that makes one person fall in love with another? It’s not irreducible, because everyone falls in love with certain people, right? But then sometimes I’ll see a pairing where all of the usual rules around attraction, socioeconomic background, maybe even personality a

A guy once told me about how he met his girlfriend. He was dating this girl named Leah and it wasn’t going so well, so he started confiding in her friend Sarah, and he was totally unconstricted around Sarah, just said whatever he actually felt. He didn’t care what she thought of him since he was madly in love with Leah. Well, things fell apart with Leah, but he ended up becoming best friends with Sarah, and then she fell in love with him. I always wondered whether the reason Sarah fell in love with him was because he was able to be so totally open with her. Like, if he’d been as relaxed and wi

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