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Marriage Quarantine

I wonder if marriage could be less of a quarantine from significant other relationships and more of a prime relationship in love's easy and difficult lessons, growing more resilient as opening out to deeper and wider resonant caregiving and receiving, extending familial relationships which, in turn, do not predominately compete for time but primally cooperate with our initial attachment bond. This feels like the opposite of a marriage model in which each partner expects, sometimes demands, that all attachment needs for ecological and theological and biological and sociological and neurological connection and healthy cooperative reconnection, communication, communion will become monoculturally and magically met by this one other mere mortal person. I wonder, sometimes, if marriage, cooperative partnership and management and ownership experience, of creolizing multicultural health has devolved into a left-brain dominant theory of humane relationship sustainable only through threat of punishing non-exclusive non-supremacist relationships emotionally isolating, commodified, increasingly codependent competitive lack of healthy eco-political democratic co-governance. Could marriage grow not only co-gravitating bipolar passion but also dipolar co-arising compassion, re-connection, re-generativity, resonant resilience, resting in robust health/wealth yang/yin universal/unitarian left/right communion? Not so much a polyvagal theory of partnership; More of a polypathic experience in- and ex-forming EarthRooted healthy marriage, co-empathic partnership, full-spectral communion.

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