You Making You Happy

You generate your own happiness. To rely on another for it is not only leaving yourself very vulnerable and open to disappointment, but it’s also a huge burden on to place on another – the responsibility of making you happy. I have tried telling this to a colleague who believes that without a man, she cannot be happy. She falls for men who hurt her and yet she repeats the same patterns over and over. As she tells me about yet another beau, I can already tell it’s going to end in tears. Hers. But why can’t she just see this?

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