What have I made this person mean?

Are you stuck in a rut with someone? Your insignificant other? A parent? Your boss? A co-worker? Or even a friend? Is something not-quite-right between you and no matter what you do, you can't seem to make it work for you? What have you decided this person means to you? Have you made them the answer to something? For example, have you made your boy/girlfriend The One? Are your parents proof that you're The Good Child? Is your boss The Enemy, around which you rally with your co-workers? Is a co-worker The Unfair Competition to excuse your own uninspired performance? Is your friend the [fill in their role and it's value here___________________]. If you'd like to be free from these limits and to see people for who they truly are, rather than what you've decided they are, ask “What have I made this person mean to me?” then simply let it go.