Losing Yourself

During the course of any mature relationship (whether it is of a platonic natural or not) causes a person to give something of themselves as an investment towards that relationship. Subsequently, every time a relationship ends we loose a piece of ourselves that it seems we never can get back. The problem lies in the fact that we can allow ourselves to be so fearful of loosing another piece of ourselves that we hold on to seasonal and sometimes unhealthy relationships just to avoid this loss.