[gorbavid]

In my personal (although not very full of events) experience, you don’t really “need” a relationship. Whenever you do, it isn’t probably going to turn out well. If you are staying with someone out of a simple need or because you don’t want to feel “alone”, you are very likely to live it the “wrong” way (provided there is a “right” way to live a relationship, since each one can be different from the others). In most cases, if you “need” a relationship you’re likely to learn something bad out of pain. And I say so because it happened to me.