As I look back over my personal history, I feel like a failure in the area of relationships. I'm talking about the romantic kind. Lately I've been thinking about couples...people who met that one person, after only dating a short while, then made a commitment and settled with them happily for life.
This never happened for me, and I must be seriously flawed, despite having devoted my total energy to building relationships only to have them fail. I can attribute this to having poor relationship models and an unhappy childhood...but one gets tired of tracing the blame to the parents. In the end, I think it's just me and my unrealistic expectations.
Patty