Relationships
If You Don’t Love Me At My Worst, Then You Don’t Deserve Me At My Best—Was Marilyn Monroe Wrong?
We’re all familiar with Marilyn Monroe’s classic quote: “If you don’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.” But how much of your worst should anyone realistically be willing to tolerate?
By Julia Song3 min read
Coming from a broken family and challenging myself to be better than my parents, I put a lot of focus on finding the right relationship based on my perfect ideals. The way I saw it, the majority, if not all, of the components that would contribute to the relationship’s happiness would come from my partner. He would have to be tall, kind, educated, etc. I never actually took the time to reflect on what I would be bringing to the relationship.