Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?

Joy, happiness, meaning, purpose, connection, shared objectives and target outcomes, in various parts, depending on person and relationship. “Find your people.”

(who your partner is will be one of, if not the most, important decisions of your life; your friends and community are a close second, with professional network being important but not nearly as much as the first two)

Someone to share my life with. Someone to share moments with. Someone to share jokes with, thoughts. Someone to share trouble with. Someone to connect with, to have human contact with.

Drama , pain and suffering, which is why I've largely given them up

Warmth, intimacy, companionship, curiosity, discovery.

A tribe is a group of people who act as a single unit instead of multiple individuals. A marriage is the same with two people.

Love is the unconditional, unequivocal commitment to the welfare of another. This makes it very susceptible to abuse - you can simply use a loved one for endless money, sex, or labor for example.

Much of society has formed to protect individuals against the abuse of love, often to the point where we think love is evil. Restrictions on marriage, people are decoupled from their jobs, welfare is villainised. Unbounded love leads to tyrants and child abuse.

But love is still necessary for society to thrive. Love is by nature unbounded. And one of the hardest optimization problems of being human is deciding who to love.