Why You Don’t Need a Better Half

A part of growing up and growing older in life is starting on the journey of trying to find your significant other. Chasing that feeling of new love can be quite addictive and if we’re being totally honest, there’s nothing that quite compares. But what if that feeling isn’t happening to you? Does that mean your life is instantly over and you’re worthless as a person? Well, quite the opposite.

Whether you want to stick to the “better half” trope or consider your partner someone who “completes” you, most of our conceptions about love are based on the wrong premise that we’re only half a person somehow. That without someone to share our life with, we’ll never reach more than 50% of our potential. Deep down, we all know that this is factually wrong. In fact, this also implies that you somehow would stop being an individual when you get into a relationship, but your life is now a part in service of the whole. Again, this is simply factually wrong. There’s no reason why you should have to lose yourself or compromise on who you want to be once you start a relationship with someone.