#tralu

General Hospital, September 2011

Tracy: People who are madly in love sometimes fight about silly things; things that are about unresolved issues. Lulu: Like honesty? Tracy: No. Like self-worth and fear of abandonment. You fight until it's over and then you go on. Lulu: Or you leave because it's too broken to be fixed. Tracy: Here's the bottom line--to be in a rich, rewarding relationship means being willing to put in the work. It means trying when you don't want to try, forgiving when it's the last thing in the world you want to do. Lulu: Then what if I can't do that? Tracy: Okay. Then you end up alone. I've done alone. I've carved a nice life for myself. I don't ever have to put up with being hurt by another person. I don't have to deal with the flaws of another person. I don't go through the rollercoaster ride of emotions that comes with a committed relationship. You make your life about work and money and stuff, and you need more and more as the hole gets deeper and deeper. What happens if someday...the forces conspire against you, and all this stuff goes away? You know what you have? Nothing.

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