I remember the romantic musings of my childhood self. Oh, what a magical, unconditional love it would be. Oh, what a load of crap that actually was. It certainly doesn’t help that in movies, intense romantic is often the reward for surviving some apocalypse-sized unhealthy betrayal or behavior on behalf of one or both people which ultimately “proves” to one or the other how they want to behave and who they want to be et VIOLA! They’re that!
I realized that I did something that is often done, and that is that I conflated unconditional love with unconditional relationship.
Read MoreI conflated unconditional love with unconditional relationship.
