To anyone I trust with my soul
Okay, this totally made me cry and describes why a recent friendship ended. I'm only quoting part of the article. Source listed at the end.
To my inner circle, my best friends, my confidants, to anyone I trust with my soul:
You’ve got my everything, an unlimited amount of listening and insight and help, of fun and laughter and adventure, of caring and creativity and courage.
I accept and love you as you are, I support you in your insanity, I believe in your vision, I stand by you equally in your greatest triumphs and when I think you are making colossal mistakes.
And I will be brutally honest. Tell you all of my insanities. Speak the whole story, even the parts where I am embarrassed and worried about what you will think of me and scared that you may be upset or hurt by what I have to say.
I’ll call you on your bullshit. Hold you accountable to what you say you are going to do. Hold up a mirror so you can see who who you truly are.
I’ll protect you from the world. Create a sanctuary, a safe place for you to be 100% yourself.
All I ask is the same in return.
Which is a freaking big deal, actually. I get that.
And if it ends up that you can’t do that, then I’m pulling back.
Not because I don’t love you. Not because you did anything objectively wrong. Not because there has been some grand betrayal.
But because I can only be everything or nothing.
If I let you in, it must be all the way. And the only way I have anything to give is if I keep myself from constantly falling apart.
Author: Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
Source: http://www.elizabethpottsweinstein.com/infj/