Boundaries in Relationships. Where I End and You Begin

A healthy relationship is not two people fused into one being. It's two whole people standing side by side.

Many believe that love means becoming one entity. Knowing each other's thoughts from a distance. No need for words. Your friends become their friends, your plans become their plans, your life becomes their life. It's romantic in movies. But in reality, it's codependency.

A healthy relationship is when you're close to someone without dissolving into them. You have your own friends, your own interests, your own time. So do they. You share, but you don't merge. You love, but you don't consume each other.