Sacrificing a cherished possession can repair a relationship money cannot.

Evidence

This was Gordon’s act of contrition. He felt the need to repent, and the Krugerrands, so dear to him, seemed like a good way to start. Uncle Pete must have understood this. After a while his anger at Gordon waned. But Pete said again there could be no more overdrafts. Never again. There was no more credit. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2136

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Giving up the thing you love most is how contrition becomes credible to the person you wronged.
• XREF: connects to: Expanding the self is needless once sacrifice gives way to relationship — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 786; Money and intimacy cannot be disentangled from each other. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 216; Valuing a relationship overall does not justify preserving its arbitrary power — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 37 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Expanding the self is needless once sacrifice gives way to relationship #complicates (0.90) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 786
• Money and intimacy cannot be disentangled from each other. #complicates (0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 216
• Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property #complicates (0.90) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124
• Possessions impose a tyranny of care that outweighs their comfort #complicates (0.90) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 143
• Valuing a relationship overall does not justify preserving its arbitrary power #complicates (0.85) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 37
• Marriage chains wives to ceaseless disposal of their own shared detritus #complicates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1224
• Marriages can misplace emphasis on trivial shared intimacy and lose substance #complicates (0.85)
• Total dependence reduces a wife’s freedom to abstract interiority that cannot save her #complicates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1355
• Possession is an internal bond of being, not an external relation #complicates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1366