Being single is better than being with someone who only wants to keep things casual.

Being single is better than being with someone who doesn’t bother to answer your calls and respond to your messages right away. Instead, they keep you waiting for them for ages.

Sitting at home and watching movies all by yourself on a Saturday night is better than spending hours choosing what to wear, just to have your bae cancel on you last minute.

It’s better to feel free to flirt with other guys/girls than stay loyal to only one person, even though you know that they’ve been flirting with other women/guys behind your back.

Not daydreaming about anyone is better than daydreaming about someone who plays hard to get while exploring “other options.”

It’s better to have no one to touch you than be with someone who is only interested in your body. Someone who is not able to see beyond your outward beauty. Someone who can’t see the beauty of your soul.

Focusing on your family, friends, and career is better than focusing on someone who puts you last on their list of priorities. Someone who doesn’t take care of your feelings, needs, and desires. Someone who doesn’t choose you every single day.

Being single is better than settling for someone who is only stringing you along. Someone who doesn’t imagine you as a part of their future.

Guarding your heart is better than giving it to someone who doesn’t know how to protect and take care of it. Someone who couldn’t care less whether they’ll break it or not.

Being single is better than being with someone who doesn’t reciprocate your love. Someone who doesn’t care about you the way you care about them. Someone to whom you don’t mean as much as they mean to you.

Admitting that you still haven’t found ‘The One’ is better than convincing yourself that the person you’re with now is the right one for you.

Spending time on your own is better than spending time with someone who doesn’t even deserve a minute of your attention.

It’s better to invest time in improving yourself, both personally and professionally, and in your future happiness and success than waste it on someone who only wants to see you fail. Someone to whom your happiness means nothing.

Treating yourself with respect and dignity is better than respecting someone who has no problem playing with your feelings and cheating on you.

Loving yourself is better than loving someone who makes you question their love for you. Someone who doesn’t let you know where you stand in their life.

Feeling lonely alone is better than feeling lonely with someone else.

And last but not least, nurturing the relationship you have with yourself is better than nurturing and fighting for a relationship with someone who isn’t planning to keep you around. Someone who has stopped fighting for you a long time ago.

Most of us have dated someone for a little bit longer than we should have. If we take into consideration the fact that breakups are quite unpleasant and difficult, and in some cases even traumatic, no one can blame us for wanting to dodge the breakup bullet, right?

However, staying in a poor, unhealthy, unhappy relationship longer than necessary can be even more damaging to you than ending it.  

Of course, saying goodbye to someone who was very important to you is hard and painful. But it’s even more difficult and hurtful staying in a relationship which isn’t meeting your needs. A relationship that doesn’t make you happy and fulfilled.

Yes, breakups suck, but staying with someone who is a constant source of negative feelings, stress, and resentment is even worse.

So, how do you know that your relationship is past its expiration date and that you should get out of it? Well, if most or all of the following 8 things look familiar to you, then you can take this as a huge red flag that it’s time for you to put an end to your relationship.

Here they are:

1. You feel like you’re being pressured to do things that you don’t want to.

Healthy and happy relationships are those where both partners feel free and comfortable being themselves and doing the things they like doing. However, when you’re with a person who is constantly putting you under pressure to do things that are not in accordance with your own beliefs, principles, and values, your relationship begins to become toxic.

Remember – no one has the right to tell you how to behave, control your actions, and try to change you, which brings us to the following point …

2. You feel like you’re not yourself around your partner.

If you don’t feel free and comfortable to show your true self around the person you love, then what’s the point of dating them? When you’re in a healthy, happy, and committed relationship, you’re always yourself. You feel free to show your partner your insecurities and fears. You don’t feel ashamed or afraid to show them your vulnerabilities.

However, if you’re in a relationship with someone who is constantly judging you, criticizing you, and making you feel ashamed of your weaknesses and imperfections, then know that you’re with someone who doesn’t truly love you and care about you.

3. Your partner is constantly making you question their feelings.

What’s the point of being in a relationship in which you’re never sure how your partner feels about you?  What’s the point of being with someone who doesn’t wear their heart on their sleeve and who hides their vulnerable sides and refuses to open up to you? Yes, exactly – there’s no point in staying with this kind of person.

4. Your partner makes you feel unattractive and undesirable.

Being with the right person means being with someone who boosts your confidence. Someone who makes sure you’re always aware of your qualities and strength. Someone who makes sure you never doubt your worth.

So, if you can’t remember when the last time was your partner made you feel pretty and desirable and gave you compliments about the way you look, well, you might want to ask yourself: “Is he/she really into you?”

5. You’re being cruel to your partner.

Okay, we’re all guilty of this. We can be someone’s selfish, mean, horrible ex too.

If you’re already in a relationship with someone and you’re aware that you’re being cruel and inconsiderate to them, then, my dear, this is a huge red flag that you don’t like them as much as you or everyone around you think you do.

So, let go of them and put an end to this agony. Allow them to find someone that will treat them with kindness and compassion and that will love them the way they deserve.

6. Your loved ones don’t like your partner.

If your family and friends don’t like and approve of your partner, then you shouldn’t turn a blind eye to this. After all, your family and friends are the people who truly love and care about you and who want the best for you. So, if you notice that they bear animosity towards your partner, take this as a sign that there’s something wrong with your relationship.

7. You often find yourself apologizing to others for your partner’s behavior.

Do you feel ashamed to talk to your family and friends about your relationship problems? Do you often find yourself justifying your partner’s actions to your loved ones and people you meet for the first time? Do you often find yourself apologizing to other people for your bae’s bullsh*t?

Well, if you answered all of the questions with a yes, then that’s most likely a red flag. You’re in a relationship with the wrong person.

8. Your partner calls you names.

Well, this is certainly not cool. No one has the right to insult you, let alone the person who claims that they truly love you.

So, if your partner has no problem calling you “overly sensitive,” “needy,” “paranoid,” or “crazy” every time you get jealous, emotional, or worried about something, do you really think that they “truly love you and care about your feelings?”

Should you have any questions regarding this topic or one of your own interest, feel free to email me at [email protected]  

A kind-hearted, honest woman doesn’t want your money. She doesn’t want you to shower her with lavish gifts. She doesn’t want you to be the richest man alive.

This kind of woman wants your time, attention, respect, and most importantly, love.

You could give her all of the expensive gifts and luxurious jewelry which every woman out there wants to have. You could buy her the biggest, the prettiest, and the poshest house that an architect can ever build. You could buy her a mansion. You could buy her the fanciest cars and the most modern gadgets that exist on the market. You could take her to the most luxurious places on this planet.

You could do all of the above-mentioned things so as to show her only how important she is to you, but this woman is not going to like and value them as much as when you choose to give her your attention and love.

A kind-hearted, honest woman won’t care about material things like these as long as she has your attention. She’s the type of woman that would give up all of the lavish gifts if this meant that you could have more free time to spend with her. She wouldn’t accept any of the fancy cars if this meant that you’d have to work all day long only to clear your debts.

Yes, having money and standing high on the social ladder is great, no doubt, but money doesn’t stay forever. They come and go.

On the other hand, time is something that you can’t buy or sell. It’s something that you have to use wisely. Time has value and a kind-hearted, honest woman knows that it’s the most valuable gift that one can give you.

Therefore, she is always going to choose time over money. Since it’s not money that binds two people together, but the time they choose to commit both to each other and the relationship to make it happy, fulfilling, and long-lasting.

You could open her hundreds of bank accounts. You could promise her that she’ll never have to chase financial stability. That she’ll never have to worry about whether she’ll have enough money to pay her bills. You could even promise the brightest future for the kids you might have together one day.

However, in the end, nothing of this will matter to her as your time and attention.

A kind-hearted, honest woman wants you to be the type of man that is able to devote to her the attention she needs, craves, and deserves.

She wants you to be the type of man that is going to stay by her side through both good times and bad times. The type of man who’s never going to leave her to deal with her worries and problems on her own. The type of man who’s going to stick with her through thick and thin.

She is the type of woman that’s going to expect you to offer her a shoulder to cry on and a warm, comforting hug whenever life gets tough for her. She’s the type of woman that’s going to ask for your support and help whenever she is feeling down in the dumps or struggling with problems or low self-esteem.

Because no amount of money and expensive gifts will ever be able to replace the attention, help, and support you can offer her. Nothing will be as valuable to her as your undivided attention, unconditional support, and kind, comforting words. No material thing will ever be as able to make her heart melt as your affection and love.

Because the only thing that matters to her is whether you feel about her the way she feels about you. Whether you love her the way she loves you. Whether she means to you as much as you mean to her.

As long as this kind of woman is with you, it won’t matter to her whether she lives with you in a mansion or in a regular, modest, single-storey house, or whether or not she owns a huge box of expensive jewelry, or how many and what car brands she has.

As long as this type of woman has your time, attention, and love, nothing else will matter to her.

Should you have any questions regarding this topic or one of your own interest, feel free to email me at [email protected]

If you have been in an unhealthy, troubled relationship, then you know exactly what kind of person doesn’t deserve a place in your heart.

If you’ve had this kind of experience, don’t blame yourself. Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Don’t regret wasting your time and feelings on the wrong person. Because you didn’t waste anything. Rather, you were taught a valuable lesson.

The troubled, toxic relationship was a valuable lesson – a lesson that you had to learn the hard way. It was a lesson that taught you what kind of people you need to stay away from in your life. It was a lesson which taught you that not everyone who swears that loves you and cares about you truly means it.

It was a lesson which taught you that your love won’t always be reciprocated. That there are people who don’t deserve your attention and feelings. That there are people who are not worth your sadness and tears. That love can sometimes be hard and painful.

You see, when you end a toxic relationship, you are left doubting your self-worth. You are left thinking that you don’t deserve to love and be loved. You are left thinking that love was never meant for you.

As time passes, you start reconnecting with friends who you may have distanced yourself from or who your ex-partner didn’t think were good enough for you or simply wanted to isolate you from.

So, by reconnecting with your friends, you’re also reconnecting with your old self. You begin to feel livelier and more enthusiastic. You even begin to date again, yet nothing serious. It is a great feeling when you change your hairstyle or just change anything about your appearance and for once,  some guy out there notices that. It is an amazing feeling when a man gives you his attention, tries to flirt with you, and makes you feel desirable.

The attention you are receiving is helping you rebuild your confidence. It’s helping you see all those things about yourself that you forgot even existed in your last relationship.

Yet, you still don’t feel like you’re the person you were before the toxic man entered your life. You feel like your past is still haunting you and like you’ll never manage to liberate yourself from the heavy baggage you’re carrying on your shoulders.

And all this prevents you from seeing one important truth – the truth that a man is going to enter your life and accept you and cherish you the way you are. He won’t judge you for your past choices and mistakes. Instead, he’ll understand your pain.

He’ll know that it won’t be easy for him to gain your trust. He’ll know that it’ll take you time before you feel free and comfortable to open up to him. But, he won’t rush you. He’ll give you all the time you need to start trusting him.

This man will show you that you’re more than good enough. He’ll try to erase all the hurtful words you were told in your last relationship. He’ll try to heal all your wounds.

This man will make you feel safe and protected. You won’t have to worry whether he’ll fly off the handle if you say or do something wrong. You won’t have to feel like you’re walking on eggshells around him.

This man will remind you of your strength and qualities. He’ll remind you of your worth and grandeur.

This man will wear his heart on his sleeve. He’ll never make you doubt his love for you or where you stand in his life. He’ll never feed your hope with lies, excuses, and grandiose promises. Instead, he’ll always be honest with you.

This man will love you and care about you in ways no one ever has. He’ll love you deeply, immensely, wholeheartedly, and unconditionally.

This man won’t have to promise that he’ll protect and take care of your heart forever because you’ll already know that – you’ll feel it in the depths of your being.

Should you have any questions regarding this topic or one of your own interest, feel free to email me at [email protected]