"The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you,
but to have another with whom you might share your completeness."
Neale Donald Walsch
We discover hidden aspects and potential skills in the crevices of our hearts. Teachers assist and mentors guide, but the actual work is ours to develop. Kindred spirits celebrate and encourage, but would it not be offensive to have a person step in to complete our personal design?
We travel a long way to become who we were meant to be, and it seems as though we should see our project to the end. There is great joy in sharing our masterpiece, each color a memory of learning or falling or rising again. Each brushstroke a testimony to heartbroken pain or sudden revelation.
Our loved ones need to see what we look like under construction or striving for completion. With this boundary in place, those who cherish us appreciate and deeply understand our sorrows and our dreams. We can embrace each other respecting individual journeys as we all strive to be whole, not enmeshed.
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