‘On Being Alone, But Together’

Colton Tanner Casados-Medve
4 min readJan 28, 2020

Why healthy relationships are ones in which the partners permit each other their solitude.

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I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Colton Tanner Casados-Medve

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell