I've been thinking about this since last night, and it really strikes me as a pretty emotionally shallow outlook from May; it also raises some questions I have that I would love to know her stance on.
For starters, in her mind, what makes her relationship with Bern different than her (desired) relationship with everyone else? Like, if in her ideal world she shares all types of intimacy with everyone who she cares about, then what is the point of even having a "set apart" relationship with Bern? Is it just that she loves Bern "more" than she loves other people?
I guess what confuses me is that she's admitted that she basically wants to be with Bern but have the freedom to connect physically with others (an open relationship like what Umber has), but if what she's saying in this page is really true, then what's the point of the "relationship" part with Bern? What makes it Bern different than being just another person that Maytag loves and wants to experience both physical and emotional intimacy with?
Also, what about people to whom she isn't physically attracted? Does that mean she feels she can never have a truly deep relationship with them? Obviously it's a comic, particularly one drawn in a certain style, so I doubt we'll have much interaction with people who aren't physically attractive (outside of the priestess Varja or Vajra or whatever in Bloody Mary's town), but what about people who aren't conventionally attractive? Does she really find every single conceivable body type and physical appearance to be something she would want to experience physical intimacy? Does this mean she believes you can never truly be close to family members (as I assume [perhaps wrongly] that she does not feel the desire to experience physical intimacy with her family members, although to be fair she lost her mother when she was young and had no other family that she's ever spoken of, so maybe she does think you can't ever really be close to your family)?
TL;DR version - I'm really not trying to nitpick or anything, I'm just genuinely curious how Maytag defines relationships. The idea that all relationships are, or should be, all or nothing seems really emotionally shallow and inflexible to me.