I continue to gather insight in what it means to fully love someone and expect to live separate lives. It seems to happen to me rather frequently with so many different levels of connectivity, and I can see that it is simply the way things are.
It is a lesson that I was initially taught many years ago, and my understanding of it has only recently gotten more clear. My life is populated by people whom I love, people with whom I have an open-heart relationship. I am clear that I will not have a “living close” relationship with any of them. We are actually close, but also separate.