Can a self realized person have a partner?
It isn’t a matter of “can” or “can’t”, but of whether a partner would be helpful or supportive to the person’s self realized state or/and self realization process. What people almost universally mean by a partner is a strongly and exclusively attached companion, and that is incompatible with true self realization or indeed fully ‘whole’ and healthy living. So, if you know a supposedly self realized person who has such a partner or indeed a spouse, it’s a pretty good indicator of a serious limitation of and block to that person’s full self realization. Companionship and indeed great closeness between highly compatible individuals is in itself perfectly compatible with self realization, and indeed supportive of it, but ONLY without attachment. Most people don’t understand that closeness does not require attachment and so tend to confuse the two. I refer you to Love Is Not What Nearly All People Believe.
