The naive operating theory that proximity and love will convert an avoidant partner into a willing husband is, in Peterson's blunt framing, the defining delusion of early-20s dating. Someone who tells you they don't want marriage is not a rough draft to be edited — it's the final manuscript. Holding out for transformation isn't optimism; it's sunk-cost philanthropy toward a person who has already shown you the ending.
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