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I am a strong woman. Sometimes I don't know it myself, but when it's necessary, I rise to the occasion better than most. However I have no qualms in saying that when I truly love someone, I need them in my life. I can live without them. But they are very precious to me. I am quite independent and capable of handling things on my own, but I like to feel safe with the man I love. I hope I can also offer him that same security. I have no problem with saying I need someone. It doesn't make me weak, it doesn't make me less capable. I hope that any man who loves me needs me also - a special kind of need that nurtures the soul. At the end of the day, we are all alone, of course. But showing your vulnerability should make your partner respect you, and not put you down because they suddenly feel "trapped".
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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