Needing Someone

It is a frightening thing to need someone. The moment you need someone (the moment you depend on someone else to ensure your own emotional or physical well-being), that is the moment when you give them power over you - power to break you beyond repair. Because the moment you need someone else, you become insufficient alone, so that if you are left alone, you cannot function. It is, indeed, a frightening thing to need someone.

It is even more frightening, however, to develop a need for someone who you do not fully trust. In this case, not only are you putting yourself at risk of being broken, but you are doing so with little to no reason to believe that such will not happen.

So, be wary who you depend on. Remember, once you allow someone to become essential to your life, you had better be sure they will not leave you. The consequences of recklessness in this area are too painful and destructive to disregard.