“Love is not, ‘You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.’ It’s not fifty-fifty. It’s not I owe you, you owe me. It’s always ever been, ‘I love you. Come hell or high water, I’ve laid my life down for you.’ Anything else isn’t ‘I love you,’ it’s only, ‘I need you for what you can do for me and for how you make me feel.’”—









