Are relationships nothing more than an emotional business transaction?

Is it just an exchange of currency? Where the currency is each others needs? Is it just two people doing stuff they don't want to do in order to please the other person, in hopes that they will return the favor?

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Elegy · 46-50

Yes, if you want to strip it of all its nuances that's exactly what it is. You can't fall in love with a toaster unless you're providing it's end of the transaction too which is why we refer to those kinds of people as disturbed.