Word: partnerhood
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Truth be told, I’ve been convinced for some time now of the shortcomings of the idea of partnerhood as the pinnacle of interpersonal bliss. But now the flames have been newly stoked. Both Edja and Masha had extraordinarily healthy and happy relationships with their husbands of many years. Both women’s partners were, by far, their closest peers, to whom they dedicated nearly all of their social interaction time. They cared vastly more about their relationships with them than with their other friends. They ate dinner together, relaxed together, spoke intimately about their lives with...
...hawker Amschel Moses, one Maier Amschel Rothschild, barely escaped becoming a rabbi, entered instead the Oppenheimer Bank of Hanover, laboriously worked his way from clerkship to partnerhood, won the notice of Prince Wilhelm I of Hesse by his skill at chess, became the Prince's banker, begot ten children, swore his five sons upon his deathbed to carry on his business with absolute loyalty to each other and to the House of Rothschild...
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