Love Life: How to raise your standards, find your person and live happily (no matter what)

but think of the terrible resentment I might feel at the idea of having to wait around for my partner to agree to sign off on one of my most important goals in life.

The right person is both right and ready.

we feel increasingly unsafe with the one person everyone else considers our perfect match.

One of the love life myths is that somehow love is a special realm where we can be guided by instinct. But this assumes that in childhood we all developed great instincts for every situation.

had. So when Mark didn’t pay him on time, practically making him beg for his paycheck every month, when Mark showed up several hours late to meetings (or not at all), when Mark said things had been done when they hadn’t and vice versa, Randall would tell himself, “He means well, and he’s been there for me.” Randall endured two decades of mistreatme

one cannot truly have a great relationship with love if one does not have a great relationship with life itself.

If there’s anything left to remind us of our ex, we are sleeping on the job.

Thank you to my advisor, friend, and CEO Dan Hyde.

Did we ever have a clean slate? We started out with the mess our parents handed down to us, some of which we’ll surely pass on, nearly unchanged, to the next generation.