I really believe we are all here to master relationships.  And that mastery requires you to be in relation to others, but first, you must start with the relationship with your soul. As you really befriend yourself and underSTAND (take a stand for yourself) you begin to know what type of relations your soul is calling for.   Some relationships may shower you with pain, while others provide you an outpouring of love.  You realize that in the end, it was never really about the other person, rather the imprisonment you felt, the frustration you had to work through or the heart opening expansion you experienced was really just about you being on your own path to freedom.