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Platonic love
(redirected from Platonic marriage)

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a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regarding the mind only and its excellences; - a species of love for which Plato was a warm advocate.

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Along the way she fell in love - several times - but it wasn't until the final episode that she realised her platonic marriage to the ever-faithful Edward Sexby was a sham and she really loved him.
I think this is what she should do because that would be a much better arrangement than a platonic marriage for all concerned.
Streisand's third directing effort, after the musical ``Yentl'' and the psychological melodrama ``The Prince of Tides,'' it's a laughing-through-the-tears romantic comedy about an ugly duckling college professor (Streisand dressed down) whose platonic marriage to an intimacy-challenged colleague (Jeff Bridges) is threatened when she becomes, first, more sexual and then more sexy (Streisand dolled up).
 
 
 
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