Green Flags: Good Signs in a Dating Partner
The Relationship Institute, www.relationship-institute.com, serves the online community and communities in southeastern Michigan, providing marriage, pre-marriage and couples counseling, relationship therapy, and couples counseling.
There are plenty of single people who are conscious and healthy and have some insight into themselves. The following is a list of the traits and behaviors that an ideal healthy dating partner will exhibit. While no one may fit all of these, use this as a general guide to assess the health of your partner.
Healthy dating partners:
* are comfortable in discussing their feelings about their past and present life
* have good relationships with their family members but are also living a physically and psychologically independent life
* respect your physical and emotional boundaries and reveal vulnerable information about themselves gradually over time
* use intoxicants occasionally or not at all, and when they do use them, they do so without losing control or significantly changing their personality
* are comfortable and secure enough within themselves to be satisfied with attention from you; do not need to constantly seek out attention and admiration from others
* are psychologically finished with previous significant relationships
* have had enough time to get over the breakup of their last significant relationship (at least three to six months from a breakup with a dating partner and at least one year from the legal date of a divorce or breakup from a cohabiting or marriage relationship)
* are financially stable and seem to be able to handle financial issues without losing control
* can balance the need for control with the ability to be flexible when appropriate
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