“How’s your love life?”

“It’s interesting, I’m in a bit of a pickle.”

“How so?”

“Well I’ve been in a relationship for 7 years, and we’ve gotten to that point where all we know is each other and all we see of each other is ‘my boyfriend’ or ‘my girlfriend’. That’s even how I see myself. I’ve been starting to feel like I want to explore something else, but it’s a process, you have to ween off of such a long relationship. It’s tricky. It’s cool because you think you can only be with one person and then you realize you can have connections with multiple people. Not just sexual, but really feel for someone else. There are a million different kinds of love. I’m conditioned to love one way because that’s all I knew for so long, but I’m finding out other sides of me that I really like. So…I’m happy today, feeling really positive, maybe not tomorrow…ya know?”

“Yeah, love is like that.”

“So what about you?”

“Life is good, really good. I’m so in love right now. She’s amazing and I give thanks everyday for her. Literally, she told me she makes daily thank you lists, so I started making them too. I looked back over them the other day and she’s always on it. A few weeks ago she would be like number 6 or 7 on the list. But as we kept hanging out, she started creeping up the list until she was number one pretty much everyday. I feel like she can really see me. I think what I’m trying to remember and work on now is maintaining my own center. Falling in love can be so intoxicating that you want to draw all your pleasure from that one relationship. You gotta take care of you though and stay balanced, then share the peace you cultivated internally. I have to remind myself sometimes, that love is more than just feeling good, it’s being reflections for each other so you can move into your highest self.”