There's a point where you realize that you're "just fine" without someone. You accept the fact that what will be will be and you'll find someone when fate lets you.

I was at that point when I met him.

I was succeeding in my job, making friends, and excelling in my school work. I had just moved my whole life to a completely new place and I was so much more than excited. But then I met my boyfriend and the happiness I had found in being single turned into happiness I found in a relationship - and I was content with that because he made me the best me I've ever known.

Since meeting him, my life went from happy to ecstatic.

He completes me in so many ways and I want him to. I used to take pride in being able to do life by myself but now I take pride in the fact that someone else wants to do life with me even though I'm completely capable of doing it on my own.

Being in a relationship does not mean that you lose your independence.

It does not mean that you give yourself away or that you somehow forget who you are apart from them. Being in a relationship means that your independence is complimented by another independent being. It means that you give a part of yourself to them but you do it willingly. Being in a relationship means that you choose to give yourself to them - not because you feel like you need to, but because you want to.

So yes, I was just fine living life on my own. I was okay with navigating my job, my school, and my social life by myself.

But, then I met him, and I went from fine to perfect because I chose to give him the part of me that wants (not needs) to be loved.