Balance
"Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between the effort and the surrender." ~Danielle Orner~ People talk about balance often. Most of the time we are either describing a physical sensation or a moral/philosophical situation in which we need to balance our responsibilities or weigh our choices. I am going to write about balancing my mental health and a relationship. Recently, I accepted I am in an unequal relationship. (I'm not going to go into detail about the type of relationship.) I put out a lot of effort into communicating with the person, keeping them updated on my life (the happy and the not happy), and wishing them love and good days. The person, for their own reasons, often does not respond, even when it is a serious event. The relationship was not always this way. We used to lean on each other equally. But life changed, for both of us....