I have struggled with this for a long time. I am fiercely independent😁. I love my space, my routines, my freedom to do what I want when I want. But I also crave connection. I want to love someone deeply and be loved in return.

The hard part is finding the balance😩.

I think many of us get it wrong. We either lose ourselves in the relationship, abandoning our own needs and desires to make someone else happy. Or we hold on so tightly to our independence that we push love away before it has a chance to grow.

So what does the balance actually look like?🤔

It looks like two complete individuals choosing each other every day. It looks like having your own life but wanting to share it with someone else. It looks like knowing you could survive alone but preferring not to.

I want to be with a man who has his own passions, his own friends, his own sense of purpose. I do not want to be the centre of his world. I want to be part of his world. And I want him to be part of mine🌍.

Because the most beautiful kind of love is not the kind where two people become one. It is the kind where two whole people choose to walk the same path together.

What does balance look like to you?🥰

Elena😉