This domain collects notes about what draws people together, what drives them apart, and the gendered and structural patterns that shape intimacy, attraction, and commitment.
Start here:
- Desire vs Love
- Gendered Emotional Needs
- What Makes a Person Attractive
- Boundaries
- Neediness
- Pedestals Are Prisons
- The Ick
- Puer Aeternus
- The Pressure to Be Single
- The Princess and the Market
- Feminine Power
- Gendered Cognition
- Gendered Competition
- Dominance Signaling
- Assertiveness
- Where Should We Begin
- The Social Cost of Clarity
- The Unreliability of Romantics
- The Shanghai Audit
- Saying I Love You