Love Half Full and Love Half Empty

Love is something we feel we must reach in order to be full. We see the person we fall in love with as completing us and without them we aren't whole. We have weddings that make us one. So is this to say that the whole time we were walking around as half a person? This is something I've always felt that our culture embraced that made no sense. My reasoning behind that is that you seem never to know that you're this unfinished half until you meet Mr. Right or Mrs. Right. When you have to depend on yourself and do everything for yourself you never view yourself as this shell of a person that needs to be complete. Perhaps if I may go so far as to say that we aren't full unless we are alone. We are our truest form of being when we are by our lonesome. Everything seems to click, we are more confident in ourselves, we are more able to figure out problems within ourselves, we are able to think for ourselves. In terms of metaphor adding someone that isn't right for you is just clogging your ability to do for yourself. Someone who's right for you isn't your "other half" they are simply just your other. Someone that compliments you rather than completes. Someone that makes you stand out to the brilliant person you are and not weighs you down with their own baggage. Everyone has their own baggage and helping someone to alleviate this baggage instead of taking it on as your own is two different things. You can't solve their problems for them, that's the half and half mentality. Our culture makes it seem as though when you get married the world sees you as this super group when in actuality people see you as separate entities that happen to be linked to another. When you are at work people see you for you and not this tie to your husband or wife. They are your friends or enemies and not you and your husband's or wife's,friends and enemies. You would love to try to make your husband or wife see what you see in that person but ultimately they will never see what you see exactly because he or she will never be you. You are your own person and you are already complete.