 Here, “relationship goods” refers to those goods of constitutive (as well as, often, instrumental) value that accrue to individuals in virtue of them being in relationships with other people, and that could not be enjoyed outside relationships. Examples include companionship, affection, intimacy, attachment, love, friendship, empathy, social respect, solidarity, trust. The distinction between relationships and some of the relationship goods identified here may be purely analytical: Relationships partly consist of these goods, as they would not exists—or would not be the kind of relationships they are—in the absence of these “goods”. To some extent, our language bears witness to this: we use “love” or “friendship” both in order to refer to types of relationships and to refer to the things that individuals “get” out of relationships. Therefore, talking about relationship goods—as well as about distributing them—is artificial, yet helpful for the purpose of the present normative analysis.