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Your evening longread: The rise of platonic marriages
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As this article shows, people are being attracted to the idea of marrying someone who they feel is their family – but in a platonic way.
(New York Times, 10 mins reading time)
Kimberly Perlin, a psychotherapist in Towson, Md., said that couples in this type of arrangement often find compatibility and understand each other well, while also agreeing to the guidelines without being blinded by romantic feeling. Many of these relationships, she said, begin because the couple wants their family life separate from their romantic lives, as they don’t find their romantic lives to be stable.
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