Being in a relationship means you need to be brave...

Being in a relationship today, means being big enough and honest enough to realize that who ever you are with, will have faults, and you will have to accept those faults. And in return, that person will have to accept that you have faults too. 

Possibly the most difficult of all, you are going to have to look at your self honestly, admit to your faults and then work on them and compromise so that you can be someone that the person you love can live with… 

As difficult and hard and tiresome as this sounds, don’t you think that’s the point, to find our humanity through love, to discover who we really are through the mirror provided by the ones we love? And if we take note and listen we are given the opportunity to become the best possible version of who we can be, and them the best possible version of who they can be. 

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying get into a relationship with someone who wants to change everything about you, or someone who compromises your value and what you truly want and deserve. 

But often a true soul mate will reveal the things about you, you least want to deal with, but the things that need to heal and grow in order for you to reach your full potential. 

AKA Mr. & Mrs. Smith

By choosing (and I say choosing very specifically because it is a choice) to share our lives by truly loving another human being and embracing them faults and all and being ourselves embraced, it is the most difficult, challenging, selfish and selfless thing we can do, you really need to be brave and to want it because to be honest it's not always floating hearts and butterflies. 

Today many people chose to travel solo, it's much simpler and less complicated, not nearly as scary and of course you can do an enormous amount of self growth and healing on your own... and yet for me, a life without love, is a life not lived at all...

So isn’t it worth it?