Your relationship doesnt have to be perfect and easy to be happy and healthy. The only things needed to have a successful relationship are love, regular communication, respect, patience, and a commitment to stick it out through thick-and-thin. It also requires compromise or “coming together” moments.

What is dating supposed to feel like?

Healthy relationships involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and they take effort and compromise from both people. There is no imbalance of power. Partners respect each others independence, can make their own decisions without fear of retribution or retaliation, and share decisions.

Why does dating have to be so hard?

We expect perfection and, if we dont find it, we move on quickly. This makes dating harder because its common for us to look for whats wrong with someone, instead of focusing on whats right. We expect an intense spark to be there from the start.