 Women, then, have no less access to the metaphysical than men, though the kind of access they have is distinct: it is different from and complements, rather than falls short of, the access that men have. Susman suggests that, for better or for worse, both sexes depend on each other in every aspect of their existence. Their relationship is thus based on a reciprocally complementary difference whose divisive force makes the experience of love profoundly different for each. While the act of love might unite them, birth not only forms the new unit of a family but causes differences between woman and man to proliferate.