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How to Know You Found “The One”
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” -Steve Maraboli
Romeo and Juliet. Not a great story. Girl meets boy. They fall in love over a weekend and cause so much mayhem that several people died.
Fifty Shades of Grey. Girl meets boy. He says what he wants out of life and she methodically sets about deconstructing his vision of what he adamantly wants in a relationship.
Sex and The City. Don’t even get me started on that one.
Fiction hasn’t done a lot to promote a healthy understanding how relationships actually should function.
Falling in love is natures brilliant design to promote procreation. You have to be so in love that you throw caution to the wind and make babies. But that whirlwind of emotion doesn’t always come with the necessary elements to make a relationship work over the long term.
So what are those elements?
You can talk
I mean really talk. About anything, about everything. And it doesn't feel difficult. You don’t find yourself avoiding conversations. Or walking on eggshells. Or holding back.
