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When It Comes To Love, We're All a Little Crazy - Here Is How

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Well, love is never simple, and one of the biggest risks is believing that love is easy or that it comes effortlessly to you. It's incredible how many different aspects of life we train for, like, how to fly a plane, operate a business, do surgery, etc. We learn everything, but when it comes to love, we just let people pretend that they are already skilled at it. It's amazing! You would think I was joking if I told you that I was going to fly an aeroplane to New York without ever having taken a flight lesson or trained as a pilot. (shey u dey whine me niiii) But despite this, we observe individuals from all walks of life falling in love, beginning relationships, and getting married without having the foggiest clue of what they are doing. I think that love is more of a talent than a feeling, and that we should practice love methodically throughout our lives. This is pretty unromantic, I know. You would think that it sounds awful if I told you, "Don't merely fall in love...

More Sex or More intimacy?

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    So I read a Washington post recently, about a tweet made by activist and former Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidate Alexandra Hunt setting off an internet firestorm. She stated that young men aren’t having sex and that we should be moving toward a right to sex. And here’s what I find interesting. What I do find interesting is how the framing always talks about men and sex alone but it never talks about women amongst a plethora of other factors to consider when it comes to the topic of sex. Firstly, very seldom in society do we talk about how the expectation of sex was often set by a society controlled by men, and women were just subject to it, and as that has changed you would hope that by now the dynamics would have changed as well. Some quarters still argue that men aren't having the sex that they want to have or ought to have, and I go like “how much sex” are men supposed to have in the first place? Secondly, it begs the reasoning; are only men entitled to s...