To have issues
with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into
the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You
can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my
dog's time-everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all
your debts {in every definition of the word}, I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will
project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself
and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain,
and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all
this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy
is by becoming infatuated with someone else.
with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into
the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You
can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my
dog's time-everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all
your debts {in every definition of the word}, I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will
project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself
and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain,
and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all
this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy
is by becoming infatuated with someone else.
( Elizabeth Gilbert )
[ Eat, Pray, Love ]
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