Giving Into the Nuances of Relationships

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:25.1	Great article, and I know I didn't look it up, so I don't know anything about this magazine.
0:29.7	It's called EVEI-E magazine. I have no real notion as to what it is but this article I wish I had written it and I could take credit
0:43.1	for it because it's perfectly written and I admire that they don't say specifically who wrote it
0:50.5	little by little I'm reading we've given into the nuances of relationships,
0:58.2	and now we found ourselves in a dire place. We're calling our colleagues and lovers the same
1:04.9	term, partner. Words matter. Oh my God, how often do i say that words matter they shape our perceptions
1:14.7	our identities and our relationships and yet somehow along the way we started treating the language
1:23.3	of love like it was optional suddenly the one person we open our hearts to becomes a partner.
1:31.2	What was once clear and distinct has been blurred into vague, interchangeable labels that tell us
1:37.7	nothing about the reality of a relationship. When I say boyfriend, you know immediately what I mean. A man I'm romantically
1:47.0	involved with, not married to, not engaged to, just that, romantically involved with.
1:55.4	When I say husband, you also know what I mean. Legally, spiritually bound union.
2:01.8	But when somebody says, partner, you're left guessing.
2:06.0	Are they in a casual relationship, a domestic partnership, a long-term marriage without a ring?
2:11.4	Are they trying to sound serious?
2:14.0	Are they avoiding sounding too serious?
2:16.4	Are they leading a law firm together? The word
2:19.4	doesn't clarify. Now here's three beautiful words. It intentionally clouds. Now why would we want to
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