You Were Never Meant to Be Half

Too often, we grow up believing that love is about completion—that we are halves, waiting to be made whole. But true love is not about finding someone to fix us; it’s about embracing our own wholeness and choosing to walk beside someone who complements us, not completes us.

You are in the habit
of leaning too heavily on others,
pouring yourself into empty spaces
as if love was a patchwork quilt,
stitched together from borrowed hands.

You have been told,
since the days when fairy tales
were whispered into your dreams,
that love is the missing piece,
that you are incomplete,
that another soul will arrive
and make you whole.

But who told you this lie?
Who made you believe
that you were crafted in halves,
that your edges were unfinished,
that without another’s presence
you are somehow less?

You search in the eyes of others,
hoping they reflect the worth
you struggle to see in yourself.
You give, and you give,
until your hands are empty,
until your heart is drained,
until you mistake dependency
for devotion.

But love was never meant
to be your rescue,
nor was it meant to carry
the weight of what you believe you lack.
Another person is not the missing puzzle piece
to your unfinished story.
They are not the answer
to the questions you fear asking yourself.

At best, love is a mirror,
a reflection of the light you already hold.
At best, they walk beside you,
not to fix, not to fill,
but to remind you
that you were never missing anything
to begin with.

So stand tall in your wholeness.
Know that your worth does not shrink
in the absence of another.
Love is not about being completed,
but about walking whole,
hand in hand with another soul,
who sees you,
who chooses you,
not to fix,
but to complement the beauty
that was always there.

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