12 August

"The idea of "completion" stems from the hope crystallised in fairy tales. We meet the princess or the prince, we will live happily ever after. Any mature adult knows that this is absurd, but knowing it isn't the same as acknowledging it. For understanding that we cannot be completed, also acknowledges that, however much we love someone, we must finally live life existentially alone. This is a hard fact to swallow. This hope of escaping solitude is, I suspect, why people put such high expectations on their partner...We can only love, in truth, from a confident place of aloneness. It is the human condition."