Thing I Won't Be Talking About In My Paper

Gah. This Yvain paper is late and getting later.

Also I was wrong when I said all the truly personal relationships are m/m or f/f.

The most stable, equal and mutually beneficial relationship in the poem, the relationships around which the whole action depends, is the aromantic heterosocial relationship between Yvain and Lunette. It's the only relationship which Yvain doesn't break and doesn't have to reforge. Unlike Gawain and Laudine, Lunette doesn't demand exclusivity, so friendship with her doesn't put Yvain in a double-bind. And while Lunette's treatment of Laudine is duplicitous, she is honest with Yvain and keeps her word to him every time, and he to her.