We’ve been taught to shrink our lives for a +1, like partnership is the ultimate achievement. But what if the real goal isn’t disappearing into romantic love, but expanding into connection with community?
Oh, so you got a partner and abandoned your friends and community? A true love story insert eye roll
We’ve been taught to shrink our lives for a +1, like partnership is the ultimate achievement. But what if the real goal isn’t disappearing into love, but expanding into connection with community? In this episode, we’re unpacking the limitations of romantic partnership and the cultural lie that it’s the ultimate life goal: especially for women. Too often, people vanish into relationships, abandoning their friendships and communities like everything before their partner was just filler. I challenge the idea that love is linear or hierarchical, and ask why society treats romantic love as the only “real” love worth prioritizing. What happens when you treat community as sacred, not secondary? Why do we stop showing up for our people the moment we’re “chosen”?
I explore the emotional cost of disappearing into a relationship and how to build a life that honors all the love you hold. Because connection shouldn’t shrink when romance enters: it should multiply.
Let’s redefine what a full, connected life actually looks like.
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