James Sexton

It has had the opposite effect.

It has made me realize how precious love is, how important love is, how finite and potentially fragile love is.

Like, I'm a romantic, but I don't believe in fairy tales.

I think fairy tales are useful to tell us principles and virtues that might inspire us to be better.

But I don't believe in fairy tales.

I don't believe in soulmates.

Like, there are 8 billion people in the world.

That's a lot.

Like, I think there are a lot of people any one of us could have a very successful, happy connection with.

Long term, short term, whatever it might be.

I don't think that we have to romanticize that to the point where we go, yeah, like it's perfect or nothing.

Oh, this person hurt my feelings.

That's it, it's over now.

You know, like that's insane.

Like it's insane.

Like I think it would be impossible or foolish to not believe in love and to deny how incredibly important it is to all of us.

I think it is the most important thing.

The fact that...

Tens of millions of people have now tuned into some form or another of what it is I have to say about love.

Tells me everything I need to know about how important this is to all of us.