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can someone translate this sentence for me?
the previous sentence says "even the most loving relationships inventively involve negative feelings as well as positive ones"
the sentence i don't understand is "it is this ambivalence that sets close relationships apart from less intimate ones."
hmm i dont know what it is trying to say about close and intimate relationships?
2 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Ambivalence means opposite feelings at the same time. The ambivalence in this case is the existance of ''negative feelings as well as positive ones'' in a relationship. So it is trying to say that close relationships have this ambivalence while less intimate ones don't, so that's the factor that make them different.
- RoseLv 78 years ago
It is saying that, in a real relationship, there are both positive and negatives feelings.