## Metadata - Author: [[Ben]] - Full Title:: Winning and Losing at the Great Game of Intimacy - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/ - Read date:: [[2026-08-17]] ## Highlights > Our culture has become vaguely (but severely) Aristotelian in its ideas about love: Quality is determined solely by actions, not by intentions, promises, longing, desire, projections, or endorphic highs. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m07afqckzsx0k76cxyfc07np))