The traits that make you a good partner

Want to be the best partner you can be? These are the traits you should focus on cultivating.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
Published in
9 min readJan 7, 2021

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A handsome couple embraces lovingly on a sunlit park path.
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by: E.B. Johnson

Relationships can form a piece of our happiness here on the planet. The wrong relationship, though, can create a level of misery that completely alienates us from ourselves. If we want to have happier, healthier relationships, we have to rethink the way we build our connections with others from the ground up. Do you actually know what it takes to be a good partner? Or are you settling for habits and patterns that are going to leave you resentful and broken-hearted?

Good relationships need good partners.

Good relationships don’t happen, my magic or comic ordainment, despite what we may think. They happen by forming bonds with happy, healthy, well-adjusted people, after we ourselves have found the power and the self-respect to become the fully rounded people who are strong enough to stand on our own two feet. To get a good relationship, we have to be a good partner, but that requires first knowing what a good partner looks like.

How much time have you spent improving yourself, versus improving the quality of person you look for? It’s hard to find someone on the ideal path when we’ve…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

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