How much of YOU… of your persona, what you value, the way you move through the world, and even the way you see yourself must shift or change for the person you love? How often should you oblige them and their needs, even if it creates conflict within your own desires? Someone recently asked me this and personally, I find the answer to be super nuanced. Part of me wants to cry NEVER!! You should never lose yourself to your partner, that instead, you should always remain true to yourself… buttttt that wouldn’t be in keeping with my actual lived experience. Partnership equates to compromise... and sometimes -it feels like ALL compromise 😅 But partnership also equates to honoring yourself And that honoring of self gets to take place while in the process of shifting and growing within the relationship The trick then… becomes finding a balance between the two 🙃 Since this question really got me thinking, I decided to ask Reggie about it and see what he thinks… A lively discussion on the ongoing balancing act (sometimes battle😬) between the individual’s needs and the relationship’s needs ensued!