Tcepsa's Thoughts

Inspired by a conversation that I had yesterday and this post about acceptability of needs and preconditions, I've been thinking about how we tend to break relationships apart into physical and emotional parts and then compare them against each other. Usually emotional, at least in mainstream American culture, seems to be considered better than physical--a couple who says of each other "my partner and I send each other love notes every day!" is usually considered to have a better, superior relationship than a couple who says of each other "my partner and I have incredibly good sex every day!"

( I think that such a dichotomy between physical and emotional is worse than useless; from what I can tell it implies that things work differently than the way they really do. )