"How does a person make you feel about you? About being all of what you are? Not about you becoming, just about you being.
Because when it all comes down to it, that is what a mate is all about.
We are here to bolster each other and walk through this maze of life together
The benchmark then should transcend logic and paradigms, rather it is about emotional response and connection with one's self and being.
That barometer that many of us have been searching for externally, is then rather within each of us."
Kenneth Kaufman with comments and edits by fsm