Uffff! What a story. Love... love... love. That phrase of your ex: “We’re not straight people. We don’t have to act like that.” Got me like: "Well, when we are in love, independently of our *identity* (discourse, words, representations, reality), <<we don't act like straight people>>."
I mean, when we are in love, our bodies and minds undergo a complex transformation. We stop being <<Straight>> in sense we're not ourselves. We act with a blindfold, trusting in the other. We act and we become <<the other we love>>, it owns us and we own it. That's why love is so complex. When we stop acting like and through "the other we love", When we stop acting as and through the other we love, that is when complaints come. Because we begin to be ourselves, and that separation from the other hurts precisely, the other.
What a beautiful and complex narrative. My reflection: I have to stop being and acting like <<Straight>>, in a world with cracks in reason.
PS. What a nice passage about discussing Critical Theory with your boy, again, "in a world with cracks in reason", that's what we need. :)
Uffff! What a story. Love... love... love. That phrase of your ex: “We’re not straight people. We don’t have to act like that.” Got me like: "Well, when we are in love, independently of our *identity* (discourse, words, representations, reality), <<we don't act like straight people>>."
I mean, when we are in love, our bodies and minds undergo a complex transformation. We stop being <<Straight>> in sense we're not ourselves. We act with a blindfold, trusting in the other. We act and we become <<the other we love>>, it owns us and we own it. That's why love is so complex. When we stop acting like and through "the other we love", When we stop acting as and through the other we love, that is when complaints come. Because we begin to be ourselves, and that separation from the other hurts precisely, the other.
What a beautiful and complex narrative. My reflection: I have to stop being and acting like <<Straight>>, in a world with cracks in reason.
PS. What a nice passage about discussing Critical Theory with your boy, again, "in a world with cracks in reason", that's what we need. :)