Your Relationship isn’t a Substitute for the Parents You Never Had.

Your partner – or future partner – isn’t a substitute for your mummy and daddy. It’s natural for our experience of ‘love’ to have been formulated in childhood by whatever our parents decided to pass down to us but ma and pa(ternal) love isn’t the same as romantic love. Your partner is there to accept you at wherever you’re at and to grow REAL with you as they also grow into themselves and through whatever ‘stuff’ they have. They don’t exist to be a substitute for mummy and daddy and to fix all o...