part·​ner·​ship

"[Fours] are always scouting around for the ideal someone who will help them overcome their feeling of unworthiness and complete them…More than anything else what Fours need are partners and friends who know how to 'detach without withdrawing'" - Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile, The Road Back to You

"Their disconnection from their parents also produces a longing for the 'good parent' - the person who will see them as they truly are and validate the self they are trying to construct. Fours usually experience this as a longing for an ideal mate or partner." - Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson, Personality Types

"Type Fours believe there’s something fundamentally missing in them that makes them unworthy of love. They expect to be rejected and/or abandoned. They also think that because they are fundamentally flawed, anyone who would be in a relationship with them must also be flawed." - Heath Davis Havlick

And here I am writing a blog post titled "Partnership"? To borrow the simple yet effective mantra of many since 2012, "Better not."