Trying again after some failed relationships

I absolutely love the feeling of being someone’s love. I’ve never been in a relationship where I have felt truly valued as a person and had someone else listen to my opinions and consider what means something to me in my life. I’ve always been sort of a follower – you want to move there, ok I will go – you want me to feel like that, ok I will feel like that. You know the drill. I think that after living on my own for some years now, I have come to the core of what made me behave like that and accept such a treatment. I simply have not known my worth. I’ve been blowing every which direction the wind has blown in search for love and validation. Now I am at a crossroad. Since my last hopeless relationship some years back, I have been alright – mostly – with being alone and yet I never really told myself that “I just can’t make relationships work”. I never said that I would never try again. I’ve just not felt any urge to throw myself into a project that I was not ready for. I needed...