Richard had a theory about intimate human relations. He saw nonpossessive love as pure love, the only love, and possessive love as a mockery of pure love. Nonpossessive love did not enslave or constrain the love object. Richard was critical of what he called “bourgeois love relationships,” of the marriage system and the requirements of the marriage partners to each other (i.e., sex with one partner, jealousy, limits upon mobility, well-defined roles based upon sex). He felt that people should not be like cars or houses. No man should own a wife, nor should a wife own a husband, because
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