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How Do You Know When You’ve Met “The One”?
Is he the one? Is she the woman you’ve been searching for your entire life?
It’s not always clear cut whether you’ve found the person of your dreams or if you’re on the road to another disappointment.
While there’s no way to be 100% certain, there are signs you can look for that will give you a more accurate prediction of your success than just the butterflies you feel in your stomach.
Those butterflies have been wrong before.
Using these strategies will help you to determine if your current love could actually be “the one”:
1. Low drama. When you’re with the right person, the relationship should be largely drama-free. Relationships rarely get easier. They generally become more challenging after the honeymoon phase is over. Regular arguments and hard feelings aren’t a positive sign for the future.
2. High comfort. When you’ve found “the one,” you’ll feel a high level of comfort and peacefulness when you’re with them. A high degree of rapport is a positive sign. A peaceful life is a happy life. Your relationship is a place of peace rather than a place of turmoil.
3. You share a similar vision for the future. It’s necessary to have similar plans for the future. Otherwise, at least one of you is guaranteed to be unhappy…