How to make your love life a success by finding a healthy balance between your standards and expectations
If you don’t want your relationship to fail, just remember to manage the expectations and standards you have for your partner realistically. Anything else is a recipe for disappointment
We are often told that to attain happiness in life, we must learn to be content in life.
I prefer to accept things being good, but imagine the very best things they can be too. Because that means that while learning to appreciate the present, we are still hoping for a better future.
Having a positive attitude via constant exposure to helpful information and through personal experience is fundamental to building any form of a strong interpersonal relationship.
When it comes to romantic love, there is a false belief that feeling comfortably content or having little expectations is a compromise. It can be interpreted as, “if we ask for less, we will get less, and that means we will be less happy”.
Before we reach the desired goal of finding our significant other, we need to be sure to manage our expectations and standards. Of course, we first need to maintain some expectations or standards, but according to dating expert Ariadna Peretz, founder of Maitre D’ate, there is a big difference between them.