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Love, Dependence, and the Quiet Unraveling of a Social Myth

This article came about when I asked ChatGPT to assess if I were being unreasonable about a hypothesis. Maybe it's programmed to do this as a product, but ChatGPT encouraged me to turn it into an article. So I asked ChatGPT to make it an article, to see what it looks like. The article is presented first, then the initial discussions with ChatGPT that resulted in the article. Here's the TLDR: Perhaps men, historically, fooled themselves into believing that a woman’s affection was purely personal, when it was entangled with survival. Perhaps women, too, embraced the story because it was the most dignified and emotionally satisfying version of a limited choice. What happens when that layer is peeled back?