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Originally Posted by Alex's Trip
To care about and for someone and to be cared for, I imagine, would mean a great deal to me. I think it might give me a purpose: to care for someone. The benefit of that connection would be two fold: It gives you a sense of purpose in life, and it makes you feel accepted, and ultimately happy. I use the words "sense" and "feel" because, in relation to this thread, those benefits of the connection might not be real, if someone doesn't know the real you and only a concept of you, but the point is the same.
I know I have people that care for me, but I don't feel that sense purpose or happiness, but that is probably because I don't feel that those people know the real me, but only a concept of me that I find wrong. Essentially, they are caring for me for the wrong reasons, and at the same time I don't know if I care for them.
Does any of that make sense?
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But for someone to know the real you, it could be argued that they would have to share loads in common with you in the first place, because only then could they actually understand you. And even if that is true, who would want to be with an exact replica of themself anyway? It's sort of a lose/lose situation. I may never understand how people end up getting married to one another, and stay that way for an extended period of time.