Assess Your Romantic Partners Based on The Value They’ve Added to Your Life
When it comes to evaluating a romantic partner, it should be in relation to you and your life.
There were countless times my lady friends gushed to me about a fantastic guy they had just met or blamed themselves for ruining a promising relationship after a few months of seeing their new partner. They feared that they’d never find someone better and, soon enough, they started putting their ex on a pedestal, getting hung up on “the one who got away.”
I get it.
The beginning of the dating process is fun and exciting and full of potential.
How could it not be?
You find a perfect profile on a dating app, you go on a romantic first date, the food is delicious and the cocktails make you feel all fuzzy inside; your date says all the right things, makes all the right gestures, ticks every box you could possibly have; you can’t wait to tell your friends all about them, you believe you’ve met the love of your life. It’s like you’re in the loveliest bubble.
And all of a sudden, it pops.
You get rejected, ghosted, heartbroken. Reality sets in and it sucks. You don’t know what you have done wrong, but you desperately…
