As romantic as it seems, needing someone to complete you means that you’re not at peace with yourself.
It’s not about whether it’s right or wrong. Instead, it’s about being aware of the demands that you’re placing on your partner, most likely without realising it.
If both are equally invested in such an approach to the relationship, no problem.
However, it also means that they need to experience emotional growth at the same rate, or else the one will outgrow the other, leaving their partner feeling abandoned or betrayed.
Expectations from, or of your partner is a good thing.
But, without mindfulness and understanding of what drives such expectations, and why they may or may not feel comfortable with such expectations being placed on them, relationships end up breaking down for all the wrong reasons.
The most critical factor in making a relationship work is ensuring that you’re both similarly emotionally mature.
When emotional maturity, and in turn self-worth from both sides, is in a healthy space, contentious and sensitive issues can be discussed and resolved with relative ease.
That’s when you’ll move from completing each other, to complementing each other.
The difference between the two is that you allow each other to be uniquely beautiful in the relationship without either one feeling threatened or smothered the moment there is a difference in the growth that either experiences.
If you’re contemplating walking away from someone you once loved and dreamed of making a future with, pause to consider if the reasons you’re leaving are really the reasons that your relationship is not what it used to be.
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