Interdependence is about caring, sharing, and knowing that together we make a whole, which cannot be experienced by fighting for the separateness that we call independence. It does not mean that we have to stop doing what we love. Nor do we have to set ourselves aside. Our adjustment is through maintaining our uniqueness and knowing it is so, while loving and sharing life with our significant other who in their juncture may be at a low point. Interdependence is honoring our inner drive to be One.
Interdependence is compassion.
As I review the life I have shared with my husband, the love, the excitement of going after and attaining our dreams, I know I want to continue that right up to the moment of our passing from this earth. I look at the circle of life and know that I am at a place of choosing. I can complain, be resentful and angry. I can play the victim role. I can run, divorce, and stand up for my right to do whatever I want.