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1. No matter how perfect you believe you may be for the other person, it is up to them whether they see it that way or not. This helps a lot with heart break I believe. Sometimes people are just not in the right frame of mind to be in a relationship and this usually ends up wasting their partner’s time and efforts. It’s not your fault and you have no way of changing or controlling how they feel or perceive things. And if you do try (control or change them), you’d be wasting more of your time which could have been put towards finding someone more suitable. Understand that things in life occur for a reason. Think of what this relationship, this occurrence in your life, has taught you. Think positively now because every experience allows you to grow stronger, and usually once you’ve experienced something negative, you rarely come across it again. Like I say “if it’s meant to be, it will be”. Sometimes it is just the wrong time and place. If it is meant to be, you both will find each other again and start afresh. 2. Know what you want. I would say this prevents wasting your time and other people’s time. When I say ‘know what you want’ I mean, know what you want from a relationship and know what you want in a partner. Often people, who have a lot of drama in their life, thrive off of it. This leads onto one of the other tips, but I’ll still briefly mention it. Don’t give what you don’t want to get given or in other words ‘give what you want to get given’. Also you will know when you’ve met someone that is the right match. I don’t want to reward the females or males out there that have an ideal partner that is prince charming or a Victoria secret model or so on, but at least they know what they want. Saves you from getting into a messy relationship that isn’t fit for you. Sure eventually (I hope) they will understand their expectations are far too unreasonable and they will change. Like I said in the last tip, it’s up to them whether or not they change and it often comes down to the right time and place for a relationship to work. 3. Be open minded. Although it is good to know what you want, don’t be so uptight and unreasonable. No one is perfect and that includes you, so don’t expect to find someone that is. Generalise what possible candidates need to have and go from there. Of course people are attracted to certain type of people, but don’t be like “Oh I want a guy that looks just like Brad Pitt (or for males Megan Fox or Miranda Kerr)” because really, where are you going to find that? Then you’ll start complaining that you’re alone and can’t find that special someone –I wonder why. Allow yourself to try new things –you’ll never know what you like unless you try. Being open minded when in a relat