Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Jun/July 2019 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 74

you) is the person you must reach for in times of emotional need. You must know what your needs are and how to ask for them to be met. If you are getting signals early on that your needs are insignificant, this is not acceptable. Your needs are legitimate. Your desire to count on another person is valid. Someone who has historically demonstrated that he does not respond to your reaches is not going to be a life partner. If you are always meeting his needs and it is not mutual, you should not accept this as normal or okay. I am confident you have found the many answers you are looking for if you have been struggling with romantic interests who are emotionally unavailable. I believe you now know what love should look and feel like. I expect you to not settle for someone who does not love and respond to you in the way to which you are entitled. I want you to realize you have choices and the power to think and act in ways that attract a loving, kind, and responsive partner. “You are in no way required to anyone wh be vulnerable to o h the right to as not earned receive it.” Dr. Ma rni Feu erm an 74 www.AspireMAG.net | June / July 2019 ...realize you have choices and the power to think and act in ways that attract a loving, kind, and responsive partner. Copyright ©2019 by Dr. Marni Feuerman. Excerpted from the book Ghosted and Breadcrumbed. Printed with permission from New World Library — www. newworldlibrary.com. Dr. Marni Feuerman - Dr. Feuerman is the author of Ghosted and Breadcrumbed. She is a licensed social worker and marriage and family therapist with a private practice counseling htose with relationship issues. She also trains therapists to do couples therapy and writes about love relationships for a number of onlin emedia. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Find out more about her work online at www.drmarnionline.com.