You Complete Me

When I was 19 years old, I remember watching Jerry Maguire and feeling incredibly irritated when Renee's Alvega's character, Dorothy, utter the infamous line, you complete me. It feeds into this notion that codependency is love, this idea of feeling excessively emotionally reliant on others. You're basically going to end up looking for love in the wrong places because if you don't believe that you're good enough, then you'll settle for less than you deserve. We are always going to be living in fear. This is not what love is really about - it's actually like terror," she says.