[L]ove is all about serving a beloved, and not about using someone else to satiate our own needs and desires.
Yet, in the movies, "I love you" isn't about what I give my beloved; it's all about what my beloved provides for me. One of the best known scenes in modern film has Tom Cruise bursting into a divorce support group meeting and begging for Rene Zellweger to return (Jerry McGuire). He had her at hello. Unfortunately he got the love thing all wrong: "You complete me," he told her.
To which she should have replied, "Complete yourself, buddy, then look me up when you've matured past narcissism and are ready to love."
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