The Cancer/Cancer combination is generally a very strong and loving match. Cancer is a watery sign and is concerned with a deeply emotional, sentimental and intuitive approach to life. Both these women require a lot of love, tenderness, and affection in relationships to be happy. Each woman will get all the affection and emotional support she ever desired from her partner. Cancer in many ways embodies the archetype of the Mother Goddess -- the source and sustainer of all life. The Cancer woman needs to both give and receive emotional nourishment. These two women will want to nurture and be nurtured by each other. They will probably form a deep bond and be inclined to spend a lot of time in retreat from the world together in the warm nest of their home. If one woman is depressed, the other woman will feel it as if it were her own depression, and be filled with empathy.
Although the bond formed between these women is so strong that their relationship is usually a lasting one, there can still be some difficulties. One is related to what is most positive about the relationship: their emotional closeness. The emotional tie that can develop between these two women can be so tight that it becomes stifling. These two can become almost symbiotically close, so dependent on one another that they lose a healthy sense of their own autonomy as individuals. Not only do they feel each other's joys and sorrows, but also each other's angers and irritations. Because the relationship is so close, little irritations can become magnified out of proportion.
Many Cancer people, in reaction against their own emotional vulnerability and neediness, can also fluctuate between clutching at intimacy and then pushing it away. When both Cancer women are doing this, it can become very confusing, and at times it may appear that the two women are walking on eggs around each other's sensitivities. The slightest remark can be misinterpreted. Although this scenario sounds bad, the underlying warmth and sympathy between them is strong enough to motivate them to overcome these problems. Sexually, they should have a very compatible relationship as both are deeply emotional, empathetic, and passionately responsive.
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