THE CURIOUS RISE OFPLATONIC LIFE PARTNERS
Aime Mason Eden isn’t drawn to many people. But the first time she noticed Aluna Conrad at the gym, she was spellbound. Aluna emanated something both subtle and special: a nurturing, feminine energy that Aime felt compelled to cloak herself in. After finishing up their separate workouts one day, they got chatting. Their connection – instant and intense – crackled bright and they wound up breezing through several hours of fluidly moving patter while sitting in Aime’s car.
It was an encounter that marked the beginning of an “effortlessly close” relationship. So close that, two years later, just before March 2020, Aluna moved into Aime’s three-bedroom house in Sedona, Arizona, the smallish town steeped in New Age spiritual culture in which they lived. They describe their pairing as having a yin and yang quality. Aime, 31, is analytical, while Aluna, 35, is emotional; Aime dresses in black, Aluna prefers beige. Theirs is a joining of worlds that feels like it was fated. There’s only one way in which this relationship differs from your typical storybook narrative. Aime and Aluna aren’t involved romantically. They sleep in separate bedrooms. They don’t have sex – at least, not with one another. Rather, they’re
