If you have parents with a healthy relationship you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.
First accept sadness. Realize that without losing winning isn't so great.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.