A healthy relationship is one where two independent people just make a deal that they will help make the other person the best version of themselves.
It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them but to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.
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Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 (via larmoyante)
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People are eternally trying to walk out of difficulties, instead of trying to work out of them.
