When you feel a connection waning, that is when you must remind yourself not to steer another human being’s destiny. That is when you must remind yourself that you cannot assume the dream you had for them is the same one they have for themselves. To love someone is to allow them to be sovereign. It is to honor their path and their ability to choose how they want to spend their time and their life. Learning to love in this way is the only way to experience true intimacy, not formed upon the basis of expectation or need, but the free will of two souls who see no more preferable way to spend
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