# No One Owns Another Person by Bryant McGill > “No one owns another person. Partners, children, and friends are sovereign beings. Approaching relationships without illusions of possession honors their freedom and one's own.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Why Real Love Gives Freedom and Lets Go of Control - Livestream (Dec 2015)* ## Sources and Context - **Authoritative developed source:** [[livestreams/Why Real Love Gives Freedom and Lets Go of Control - Livestream|Why Real Love Gives Freedom and Lets Go of Control - Livestream]] — the Reminder reproduces the complete marked quotation object without alteration. For this workflow, the developed livestream document is the source authority. - **Relational context:** The surrounding key-point architecture distinguishes freely chosen closeness from control, surveillance, punishment, and possession. The later [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] project supplies a separate primatological and behavioral-pricing route for examining mate guarding, dominance, access, and the cost structures beneath possessive conduct; that later framework contextualizes the quotation but does not rewrite its source. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Book:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Right to Know Reality|The Right to Know Reality]] - **Livestream:** [[livestreams/Why Real Love Gives Freedom and Lets Go of Control - Livestream|Why Real Love Gives Freedom and Lets Go of Control - Livestream]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Behavioral Pricing|Behavioral Pricing]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Relational Autonomy|Relational Autonomy]] - [[wiki/Mate Guarding|Mate Guarding]] - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “No one owns another person. Partners, children, and friends are sovereign beings. Approaching relationships without illusions of possession honors their freedom and one's own.” — Bryant McGill, Why Real Love Gives Freedom and Lets Go of Control - Livestream (Dec 2015) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-no-one-owns-another-person ```