Kamand KojouriThe reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.
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The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. When we love someone, we want them to be just like us. We want them to be just like us in all the good and bad ways. We want them to be just like us in every way because we think that if they do, then that person will eventually love us too.
The problem with this idea is that it's a lie, a terrible lie. The great myth of true love is that two people who love each other will eventually find a way to make everyone else around them feel better about themselves. But this is a myth.
It isn't possible. It doesn't work. The truth is that loving someone makes you feel worse about yourself.
You don't want to hurt the person you love, but you also don't want them to hurt you either. That's why we end up hurting people all the time instead of loving them. In the end, it's easier to treat people exactly how we want them treated than it is for us to have to live with ourselves once we've treated them poorly.
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