Host says:
Thank you Rabbi Boteach for volunteering your time and energy to join us online today. Do you want to make a closing statement?

Rabbi_Boteach says:
For any relationship to be successful, what we need is the coming together as opposites. We want to be best friends on the one hand, and lovers on the other hand. Friendship is a love like water - it is predictable, soothing, calm. The other is a love like fire - it's consuming, it thrives on novelty, it flickers constantly.

How can fire and water come together? It's specifically by using sex, or passion, as the road to intimacy - specifically when sex is used to bring forth our deepest emotions to co coalesce, otherwise they remain permanently at war.

Host says:
Thank you very much Rabbi Boteach. The chat was informative and fun. Thank you all for joining us in chat today too.