Throughout most of my life one of my strongest desires has been to have “adventure buddies”, usually with male friends. And indeed, most of my deepest relationships — some of them still lasting now after decades, others lasting only for brief but nonetheless fun and intense moments — have been with “adventure buddies”: situations in which the male/female and friend/romantic partner binaries got blurred and I could be (& be fully accepted) as my “whole, fluid self”.
The Little Prince and the Fox 