It’s difficult to organize your life around friendship in a world that’s built for couples, and it’s doubly difficult when your time with friends is seen as a fun extracurricular instead of a basic human need.
Relying on Friends in a World Made for Couples – The Cut
“I had to defend myself to a partnered friend who told me that caring for people with life-threatening illnesses was beyond the appropriate bounds of friendship because ‘that’s what lovers are supposed to do for each other.’ (He failed to explain what those of us without lovers were supposed to do.)”
(via destielhiseyesopened)
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