“Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends" and "friendzone", all of which suggest that being friends is inferior to - and less desirable than - being partners with someone.” LoveRelationshipsBinary Book:Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between Source: Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
“The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western dominant culture thing to do, and certainly not the way that relationships have been done globally, or across time.” LoveRelationshipsFriendshipBinary Book:Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between Source: Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between