Understanding Dating | Page 18

Finding a

Relationship:

GOOD

Develop a healthy view of love. Love is not about getting all your needs met in someone else. Love is about serving, giving, honoring, putting the other before self, wanting the very best for someone else and them wanting the same for you. It’s about giving NOT taking.

Know you are valuable just as you are and be secure in that knowledge. Learn to stand on your own and accept yourself just as you are without a boyfriend or girlfriend. You have value as a friend, family member, and child of God. Realize that putting the impossible expectation on a boyfriend/girlfriend to fill the hole in your soul sets your partner up to fail and disappoint you because no one is perfect. Be secure in who you are because secure people build secure relationships. Secure people aren’t questioning every little move of their partner to either feel built up or torn down.

Work on Yourself First