Love is an equal experience...

"If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain,

I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), 

I will protect you from your own insecurity,

I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself

and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. 

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, 

I will give you a sun check and a rain check. 

I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted

 that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else." 

- Elizabeth Gilbert