Why you feel so disappointed in your relationships
Does every relationship seem to end in a let-down? This may be the reason why you always settle for disappointment in love.
by: E.B. Johnson
We don’t get to choose how our relationships play out, or even how they end. While we may kick things off with the best of intentions, we can soon find our partnerships crumbling to the ground. Love is disappointing sometimes, that’s just the way life is. It becomes even more disappointing, though, when we aren’t honest with ourselves and we aren’t honest with our partners.
Love requires a dose of reality.
As children, the idea of love and fairy tales gets closely intertwined. In a sense, this is the first place we begin to blur the lines, but it’s also the starting point to a major misunderstanding. Love and relationships aren’t fairy stories. They don’t happen by accident and they don’t last thanks to magic and cosmic fate. Good relationships work because the partners in them are honest; honest about what they want, what they need, and what it takes to make things last.
True love that’s worth sticking around for requires a giant dose of reality. Seeing someone as we want to see them will not make them a good fit…
