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"DO THEY STILL GET ALONG?"

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It happens. One cannot control as to whom one falls in love with, or not.

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Which is to say that love can also grow out of friendship. Sure, why not.

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But friends and mates are very different relationships. I mean, mating is rarely a kind or friendly affair.

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That is, until recently giving birth to a child used to be a life-threatening event for women.

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And yet, many men choose women in marriage for that use. Love, charity?

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That is perhaps where the expression 'frenemies' comes from. Hear it from Kant...

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"The principle of mutual love admonishes men constantly to come nearer to one another..."

Immanuel Kant German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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"...and that of respect which they owe each other, to keep themselves at a distance from another."

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Immanuel Kant German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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"We must so conduct ourselves toward a friend that there is no harm done if he or she should turn into an enemy."

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Immanuel Kant German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Friend, frenemy? Why ambivalence and ambiguity? Love is kind and all, says the Bible?

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The love emphasized by pious folks is a love of filial piety, courtesy and charity.

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Surprisingly, the Bible says very, very little about romantic or erotic love between a man and a woman.

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It was 4th Century bishop St. Augustine, in his Confessions, who could not help but put conjugal love down.

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And it was 18th Century poet John Milton, in his Paradise Lost, who resurrected conjugal love to be noble.

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Okay, we will handle it. When erotic love adds itself to friendship, the relationship just becomes a lot more complex...

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