http://www.blogher.com/independence-easy-part Comments for ""Independence is the easy part"" en http://www.blogher.com/independence-easy-part <p>With Independence Day rolling around, I'm thinking about independence and dependence.</p> <p>Webster's notes that &quot;depend&quot; is from the Latin &quot;to hang from&quot;  and so I have wondered does loving, depending mean you have to hang from?</p> <p>In college I was sure depending was a bad thing, a way to lose yourself. Now, I'm not so sure - <a href="http://washwords.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/independence-day/" target="_blank">there's a beauty to depending, and a wonder about being depended on. </a></p> http://www.blogher.com/independence-easy-part#comments Feminism &amp; Gender Life Sex &amp; Relationships Writing dependence independence love maintaining self relationship self Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:03:33 -0500 washwords 45732 at http://www.blogher.com