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It's so easy to say give someone up when he or she sounds bad on paper, but when you or I love that person, whatever the good reasons that she or he is bad for us are just blemishes, and not nearly enough to break the bond, however irrational the relationship might seem to someone else, whether someone else is reading about it or hearing about it over coffee or something stronger.
Is the impulse to stay a drive, ie, something apart from love?