I was watching the movie this weekend, and this quote stuck with me. Not because it's healthy to be this way, or it's who I want to be, but because I have been this person in the past, and I know exactly what she means.
“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 body, 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 am so exhausted and depleted that the only possible way I can recover [my energy] is by becoming infatuated with someone else.”
From Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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