Choosing the Best Partner
Do you find it challenging to find the best partner that checks off all your boxes and emotionally connects with you? Trying to find the right partner for yourself can feel like a lot of work and maybe even overwhelming at times. There are so many factors to consider during this process: attraction, trust, commitment, honesty, communication, intimacy, interests, differences, family relationships, etc. This is a common problem that appears to impact lives of many people which may lead them to give up entirely. However, I am here to provide you with hope that choosing a wife or husband isn’t hard and not impossible. You may be going about it the wrong way. We tend to look outward to the world and hope we can find someone to complete us, rather than looking inward at ourselves and making ourselves whole first.
What do you look for in a relationship? Here are some suggestions of what you can do to help ease the dating process in trying to choose a life partner.
Learn to Love yourself
Acknowledge your strengths and your weaknesses
Appreciate and love them for what they are
Understand your dating patterns
Reasons for choosing prior partners
Emotions attached to those reasons
Seek someone who makes you laugh
Someone you can wind down with laughter
Sense of humor
Learn from your experiences
What went wrong with prior relationships
Change the behavior to invite better people into your world
Avoid people who remind you of your past
Choose someone that is not exactly like
Opposites do attract
Certain levels of surprise and mystery
Share similar values
Children (how many) or no children
Spirituality
Do not settle for less
Suggest to wait
Needs of long-term fulfillment
Communication compatibility
Effective communication strengthens relationships
Feeling safe to be vulnerable
There are many more suggestions and too many to list in this blog, but hopefully this will be a helpful list to give you more hope that you can and will find the right long-life partner for you.
