Here are just SOME things you can expect from a healthy relationship:

* Unconditional love (you can't 'screw up' or DO anything to make him stop loving you) and acceptance of you for who you are. 

* No more having to jump through emotional hoops to get your needs met.

* A true partnership of equals where you both challenge each other, inspire each other, and give one another the freedom to grow as individuals.

I mean LIFE has plenty of its own ups and downs without needing to CREATE drama in our romantic relationships. It would be great to be in one of these healthy relationships, where we just function as a SUPPORT SYSTEM for one another to help each other through LIFE's ups and downs.

The HIGHS being the joys that life brings (the perfect summer day, realizing our career goals, a baby being born [ours or a friend's!], etc)... and our wonderful man is there to cheer us on.

The LOWS might be the inevitable (disappointments, setbacks, health challenges, losing a loved one)... and our partner is there to hold us, console us, and help us get through them. The roller coaster of LIFE is a whole lot easier to enjoy when the person we choose to share a seat with is ON OUR SIDE rather than against us.

Wouldn’t you agree?

Then again, this is a perfect example of expectation Vs reality… Ha~