5 Things A Relationship Will Never Be Able To Give You
Sometimes love is not enough.
We all love love. We dream about it. We search for it.
So much of our happiness depends on our relationships with others — as a social species, we’re hard-wired for it. But sometimes, being in a secure relationship with a deeply loving and trusting partner is not enough. Love is not a magic pill, as much as we’d like to think it is. And even so, there’s only so much a pill can do.
Love will make you feel as light as a feather; it will make your heart swell up to the point of explosion; it will make everything shine a little brighter; it will inspire you. But it won’t do any of the actual work for you.
I believe the most fulfilling romantic relationships are the synergistic kinds. The type of relationship where two independent and self-sufficient individuals come together to add to each other’s quality of life. In doing that, they create something beautiful that they couldn’t have created on their own. In other words, 1+1=3.
But in order to get to that point, we need to make sure we’re in a deeply loving and trusting relationship with ourselves first. Because one thing’s for sure: you can be in the most amazing romantic relationship but if you haven’t put in the internal work for yourself, you will…
