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Stop Looking For A Significant Other, You Might Find The Perfect Person

If you are using a checklist to find love, you will be left lonely.

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Stop Looking For A Significant Other, You Might Find The Perfect Person

We all want love. As humans, we are designed to have romantic partners. We crave the attention and affection, especially when it is lacking in our lives.

Somewhere along our journey to find this thing called love, we get distracted by a specific checklist. You may think the perfect boyfriend must be hilarious and have blonde hair. Or your perfect girlfriend cannot be taller than five feet and must be an amazing singer.

This checklist causes us to get lost looking for a certain person who may or may not exist. But having a cookie-cutter significant other is not an option. If you are using a checklist to find someone, you will never find them.

Clearly, nobody is perfect. No matter how many nooks and crannies you look in, you will never find someone who meets every bit of your criteria. They will always fail in some form, and each time they do, you will cut them out of your life. This creates a never-ending cycle of breakups that will leave you heartbroken and wanting to give up.

Here's some advice: stop looking.

Many people decide to take a break from dating somewhere during their young lives. Truthfully, it is during these dry periods that these people believe they have found the person they were meant to love. Fate can be funny like that.

You deserve love. But, you may not need to be looking right now.

Take a step back, get rid of your checklist and wait.

It is vital to know how to be happy without a boyfriend or girlfriend. The people that are constantly in need of attention are often unhappier than others that can survive without. Learn how to love yourself, and you will thrive.

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