Are you a Peasant?

"We all must remember, after all, that one of our goals in the search for romance is to find someone who needs us. Imagine how you would feel if your lover one day told you,

"I love you, but I don't need you. I admire you, but I can live without you."

The only way to find love is to embrace that sense of mutual need. If you truly want to fall in love — to build an open, emotionally fulfilling relationship with another — you must let go of the posture of independence. No one can find love by pretending to be entirely satisfied with the single life. You can convey that you're happy; there's nothing wrong with that. Just don't pretend you're not looking.⁷"

- Boteach, Shmuley.
Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments (New York: Doubleday, 2000), 34.

*Taken from article: "Looking for Love like a Peasant"