“The loneliest place on earth is in a relationship where you can't be yourself”
Agree
- Performing constantly is soul-crushing isolation
- Being unknown by your person hurts deeply
- Pretending creates unbridgeable distance
- Solitude is better than false intimacy
Disagree
- Actual loneliness is objectively worse
- This romanticizes being single unnecessarily
- Companionship has value even imperfect
- Everyone adapts themselves in relationships
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