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the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise

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maybe the best relationships are just really good conversations

Nietzsche speaks of this A friend once told me he broke up with his girlfriend because he couldn’t have a meaningful conversation with her. At the time, I was bamboozled, because I’d never heard someone say it so plainly. Isn’t conversation obviously the most important thing? I remember wondering, what are you even connecting over, if not that? To me, that sounded lonelier than being single. To be in such close physical proximity to someone and still feel conceptually and conversationally alone seems a profound kind of isolation, as if the body is present, but the mind is elsewhere,…

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