Make These 8 Decisions Before Your Next Relationship

What will you (and won’t you) accept?

Not every relationship is meant to last…some of them help to prepare you for the one that does. That is, of course, if you’re willing to take valuable lessons from the past and bring them into the present.

The best time to internalize these lessons is, well, before you meet someone new. While you’re still single. Before you run the risk of emotions and excitement clouding your judgment (it’s okay, it happens to all of us).

In this article, we’ll discuss decisions you can make while you’re still single, that’ll largely impact the quality of your next (and maybe last) relationship.

1: Your ACTUAL dealbreakers.

I once had a private client, when outlining the past indiscretions of her ex-husband, refer to them as “dealbreakers.”

I made the gentle suggestion to her during that conversation that these behaviors — while negative and toxic — were not dealbreakers.

They should’ve been, but they weren’t.

Why not?

Quite simply because they didn’t break the deal.

She had stayed with him long after he’d disrespected her boundaries, and accepted poor treatment…