James Sexton

You never put them on and go, oh my God, I got some new jeans.

Like you would never, so that's love.

Like that's real love.

Like real love is the more I have of this, the deeper my connection to it is.

And the more I feel myself like just sink into it, and the more irreplaceable it becomes.

If I said to you, I will give you $200,000 for Delilah, you'd be like, there's no amount of money you could give me that I would let you have mine.

If there's anything else in this place I'm willing to bet, if I said, I'll give you a million dollars for this, you'd be like, take it off the wall right now.

no amount of money no no amount of money to me that's that's the teacher right there i think some of that is that we're so unconditionally loved by our pets and and they love us that way and we love them that way there's simplicity to it to the nature of the relationship i think some of it also is the fact that that they have such a finite life

there's this feeling of I'm going to lose this someday.

And so there's just this depth of, I'm gonna just never take this for granted because I know far too soon this will be gone.

And I think that's one of the most beautiful things is the acknowledgement of impermanence.

And I think we can do that in romantic love.

We can remind ourselves that like,

this was loaned, this is not permanent.

That this person made a choice to love us, we made a choice to love them.

And there was a time where we were trying to close the deal.

We wanted them to love us so bad.

We all remember in our relationship that there was a time where it was like, oh my God, I want this to happen.

I want this to happen.

And then it happens.