by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
This is not nostalgia, it is anthropology. For hundreds of thousands of years, across every continent and culture our species has inhabited, the raising of children was a shared, communal, multigenerational endeavor. A child was born not into a household but into a...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
There is a word that lives uncomfortably in the territory of intimate relationships. Consent. For many people, it arrives carrying a specific and narrow association: something relevant at the beginning of a physical encounter, a formality to be navigated, a legal or...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 10, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
There is a kind of love that erases you quietly. It does not arrive as violence or cruelty. It arrives, at first, as devotion. As the willingness to say yes when you mean not quite. As the desire to be what someone needs so completely that you set aside, gradually and...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 10, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
There is a song that has stayed with people for decades precisely because it touches something true. Billy Ocean’s “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” is not, on the surface, a song about intimate relationships. And yet something in its...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 10, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
Every intimate relationship carries, at its center, a quiet negotiation that most couples never quite name. One person is leaning in. Toward closeness, toward certainty, toward the felt reassurance that the bond between them is solid and real. The other is leaning...
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