The Relationship Equation: Pt. 2

1+1=2.5
You want to know what I have less of when I'm in a relationship? MONEY!
Badum-CHH!
Sorry, I've been away for awhile. I'm trying to get back into the groove of this. Anyway, I spent the past hour and some change talking to a woman with a boyfriend who's has been spending all of her money and can't even find the time to compliment her, let alone pay her back. He hasn't shown any kind of appreciation for everything she's done for him and she's getting pretty tired of it.
"Why are you still with him, then?" I asked.
"Because I love him." She replied.
I laughed. Because it was funny.
The reason I laughed was not the girl's misfortune, but the fact that she felt that "I love him." was good enough to be the only reason to stay with someone who makes you miserable and is literally hindering your ability to better yourself. There are plenty of reasons for that. Marriage, kids, money, sex, blackmail, votes for a spot in the democratic primaries, chance of being murdered in the event of a break-up or divorce because you got with the daughter of a cartel boss, and are now very certain that she might be as crazy as her head-machete-ing mother, or finger-mailing father.
Love is definitely not on that list. The reason being that you can love someone you're not in a relationship with. Second part of the relationship equation is:
1+1=2.5

How is that possible? I'll explain.

"1" in the equation, is the equivalent of you at your best. The other "1"in the equation is the equivalent of your relationship counterpart. People in a relationship should BOTH be better people when they are together, than when they are apart. Sure, separately you should be two separate Good people. But together, you should be two Great people. Hence how "1" comes together with "1" to equal something more.
It's not possible for two people to have a healthy relationship, when "1" is required to be "1.5", because they're getting together with a ".5" and they need to try to get the relationship up to par.
You can't give 150% everyday without getting anything back. Sure you can be a 1+1=2 kind of person, but that means that you're no different apart than you are together, and it usually doesn't take long before you realize that and end up having sex with the hot cashier chick. Until you realize that she wasn't that sexy, you were just horny and bored with life. And when you confess to your girlfriend, she doesn't care one way or another, and you guys break up without even counting that experience as an actual relationship.
Look, I'm not saying love isn't a good enough reason to continue a relationship. I'm just saying that love shouldn't be the reason you continue this symbiotic relationship with the life-leech you happened to fall in love with, because down that path, you find yourself working for this "in-between jobs" giant baby, who somehow convinced you to have children, and now you have three actual babies, and you spent your prime spouse finding years hoping that this Giant Baby you nurtured would learn how to walk on it's own giant two feet, and it didn't. It used you as a crutch. And now you're this old, twisted, Disney witch-looking creature in need of an extreme makeover and a boob job. But you did it all for love...