This resonates so strongly with me. I’m not physically intimate with anyone right now, but I have several deep relationships with people I would say I was in love with. I am unable to have physical relationships with them for a variety of reasons, but for the first time in my life, I’ve gotten to the point of considering that. Because the deeper our relationships become, the happier I have been. Each one of those relationships has enhanced my life in ways I could never imagine. I feel more love and not less.

I can imagine that this would have been the biological standard in our earlier days. It makes evolutionary sense to me. It also makes sense to me now.