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Preferring animals to people is often misread as love for animals. More often it is what remains after decades of emotional work that never came back.
Loving animals and preferring them to people look like the same trait from the outside. They are usually not the same thing at all.
The culture treats a preference for animals over people as a personality quirk, faintly virtuous. The research on emotional labor and burnout suggests it often reflects something quieter — a person who has spent decades regulating others' feelings and finally found a relationship that does not ask them to.
The warmth toward animals is real. The preference for them is often grief in disguise — for the reciprocity people did not get from the humans they loved.
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