Ambrose2007 Forum Posts (8,881)
I doubt that working on ourselves ever stops. I'm sure your dating (along with your long relationship with your ex-husband) helped define for you what you wanted to work on. Best of luck - I know we'll all need it! 
Well, I imagine if our ancestors - even fairly recent ones - were laid out on the psychiatrist's couch and asked how they feel about romantic love and its meaning in their lives, they would find that line of questioning extremely puzzling, if not disturbing, on a number of different levels. 
), so I know what you mean. 
Hi, V. Sometimes I think merely being human is more than enough to achieve that state. 
But really, there isn't that much of a mystery. We're very complex beings, and life is complex; there's a lot of things we simply don't know about ourselves - nor should be expected to - until we're "baptized in fire," so to speak. How many of us know how we'd respond if we're, for example, dropped out of a plane in a dangerous jungle without food and water? We can only imagine. Our answers will come when we're in the situation.
(Man, I'm doing a lot of crying in this thread!)
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I amaze myself sometimes.
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Must We Solve Most or All of Our Issues Before Entering A Relationship?
Hi, Venus.From that I could deduce that I'm best off alone, but I haven't made that deduction. What I've decided instead is that whatever has reduced my happiness in relationships is fixable, and that after said fixing my ideal state of happiness would occur within a relationship. But that's not a minor caveat.