Mature Love Is About Embracing Difference, Not Seeking Completeness Through Sameness

The fairy-tale version of relationships portrays love as a seamless merging of two lives, a union where two halves become whole. Where one completes the other. The over-idealized cultural myth is that the closer two people become, the more their lives will intertwine, forming a perfect harmony of interests, desires, and needs. It’s an ideal many of us u…