Who are you protecting?
君は誰を守っている 「kimi wa dare o mamotte iru」 The title of this post and the previous line are the same thing. It's basically the name of a song from an anime (which some of you may already know from where it comes from!) and the reason why I picked this as a title is because of a small conversation that I had a while back with a friend of mine after a recent heartbreak of hers. (Hit the play button before you continue reading! =] ) I asked her what was she looking for in a relationship and, thus, in a man. Among the things that she told me she was looking for, something struck me (although I was expecting it): She was looking for someone that could protect her. Like I said, it was something to be expected since Security and Significance are, in fact, part of of our basic psychological necessities. In that sense, I guess she knows that fact pretty well given that she's a psychologist! In any case, that brought up something obvious: Women want/need to be protecte...