You’re welcome, Susannah. And they are simply my thoughts and my experience. So, for example, even if I do think everyone needs psychotherapy, that doesn’t  mean I’m right – it would simply mean that that is what I think. And to be clear, I don’t think everyone needs psychotherapy to function and be happy – I see it as one way to move toward wholeness and overall health.

I hear you about wanting a “one and only” to share life with. It the same thing for me. I think it’s an integral need, maybe even encoded in human DNA, to have a deep and abiding connection with a partner. Unfortunately we humans have learned so many ways to confound our relating. My search is for someone 1) with whom I have chemistry – that has to be there, and 2) who shares a commitment to learning and developing healthy ways of relating. If people already knew how to relate in a healthy way, then almost no one would be single. That’s the way I see it, anyway.

Could be you’re just going through a long drought period. People come and go. Hopefully someone will come into your life that you love and who loves you, and you both figure out how to be together peacefully until the end.