“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness” (attributed to Sigmund Freud). But are those cornerstones unchangeable? Love hardly fits into neat boxes. Ideas of peace, freedom, prosperity and humanity may be faltering as social orders seem more unstable than they have in a long time. Revisiting inter-personal connectedness evidently seems—from a psychological point of view—more topical than ever; thinking about relationships cannot be apolitical, not today. Consider this phenomenon: When you look around, it appears that the idea of one other person being the perfect match is engraved in the design of our world: Wedding invitations call for “plus ones”, hotel bookings generally start at 1-2 adults per…