
And because when someone wonderful wanders into your life and you decide to partner up, you can know that your relationship is built not on your “needs” — nor on an unacknowledged desperation to distract yourself from emptiness and hardship— but rather on pure love itself.
Perhaps. But if it had, that would have also meant that the relationship was enabling me to content myself with a situation that truly didn’t fit my spirit. Enabling me to feel just good enough to stick with it — and I’d probably end up realizing, a few ye…