One of the big assumptions of our times is that if love is real, it must by definition prove to be eternal. And therefore it seems impossible to interpret the ending of a union after only a few weeks or years as anything other than as a pointless and regrettable tragedy.
Yet to have any hope of finally securing a life-long partner, we first need to reassess the validity and value of short-term love: an arrangement which deserves to be interpreted as a state with distinctive virtues of its own…
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