My Embodiment class is changing my attitudes and opening up my mind to new and different ideas. I almost feel as if I am being freed from shackles that have held me for far too long. There is still a long road ahead but I'm looking forward to the changes that will come. This particular section stood out to me in our latest reading:

"Sexual intimacy is the communion of love, not unification. But such intimacy rests in some large measure upon each partner's own sense of worth as a person, each one's ability to be self-affirming. Without this, we elevate the other into the center of our lives, hoping that the other's affirmation will assure us of our own reality. But this is too large an order for the partner. The beloved has been idolatrized and confused with the divine." - James B. Nelson

I just thought about my own love life. I have been living under the assumption that when I meet "the" girl that everything will just fall into place. She will somehow complete me as was the case in Jerry Maguire. I realize how idiotic that was but I think it's still how a lot of people operate. I need time to work on myself. I spent years feeling trapped and stuck. I am now feeling like I'm in the process of freeing myself.