The Heartwood Similar vows

"Yeah, but isn't it in partnership that you have to give up a little of yourself to make it work?" Dwin asked, while not disagreeing with Heph. She was fiercely independent and valued that very much. It would really have to be someone special for her to give it all up. Or at least part of it. "All this concept about two halves of the same apple or something like that. It is about making something greater together. Two independent apples cannot make a single apple," she finished the sentence, the intonation going up as if she was not sure herself and looked for Heph to find the right way of, what she had wanted to express. 

"Well, I feel sorry for my friend too, but then it seems that she is accepting the life as it is and does not complain," she added. "And it does seem that she has exchanged her wanderlust for something just as valuable and beautiful. I mean... I have never asked, but I have a strong feeling that in the end we choose our adventures. She gave up the quantity for a long-term quality one," while Dwin would never 100% agree with her mom's choices in life, she was well-aware that without them she would not be standing here talking to other people.