If you think about it, they arent that far from political lesbianism.

I've relied on too many women wholly plutonically and been risen by those women socially and economically to such a vast extent I can't just remove them from my life. I owe them a massive debt albeit teaching me most of my development skills in school, looking after my when I'm sick, even getting me work when I was desperate. Fs my Mum raised me in her own and her mum raised her.

But toxic relationships need to end. It's balance like everything else in life. I definately need to spend less time and therefore resources pursuing sex, relationships and/or intimacy. It's not making me happy or fulfilling any purpose in my life. And it's making me a target for people to take advantage of.

Having said that you don't win the game by not playing, and anything other than victory feels like failure, self-inflicted or not, because we live in a society