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You Deserve To Have These 11 Needs Met In Your Relationship

The right partner will step up to the plate.

James Michael Sama
8 min readJan 21, 2022

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We all have our own wants, needs, and desires in a relationship. While it’s (obviously) not my place to say what anyone else’s are, I believe there are some universal needs (not wants) that all of us seek to fill when we commit ourselves to someone.

These 11 will be met when you’re with the right person:

1: The need to be fully seen.

When was the last time you felt like someone really saw you? I don’t mean simply looking at you, I mean seeing you beyond the surface.

Being fully seen is how you feel truly accepted by your partner, because they recognize all of the little details that make you…well, you.

And, after they’ve recognized them, they still choose you over anyone else. This can only happen if they truly accept and love you despite (and because of) all of those little quirks you have.

I don’t mean they have to like every little thing, nor do you about them. It’s natural for us to get on each others’ nerves, have habits that are annoying, or never fully agree on which damn Netflix show to watch…but love is about acceptance of these differences, rather than…

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James Michael Sama
James Michael Sama

Written by James Michael Sama

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