{"id":43712,"date":"2014-09-01T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=43712"},"modified":"2014-09-01T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:11:44","slug":"top-3-ways-women-sabotage-their-chances-at-finding-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/top-3-ways-women-sabotage-their-chances-at-finding-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 ways women sabotage their chances at finding love"},"content":{"rendered":"
Love<\/a>\u00a0is challenging enough to find without self-defeating behaviors. As such, many women can’t find a successful relationship and they become their own worst enemy.<\/p>\n After discussing the issues with over 250 women on Facebook, many were awakened to their own behaviors and how they were subconsciously destroying their chances for\u00a0love<\/a>. If you’re a woman, here are the top three ways you stop yourself from finding the relationship you deserve:<\/p>\n 1. You put your ex on a pedestal\u2028.<\/strong><\/p>\n After a breakup, we tend to look at our exes as perfect. We look past the issues that caused the breakup and remember only the good parts of a relationship. Even worse, we don’t see our own contributions to how the relationship failed. This rose-colored glasses viewpoint can have a detrimental effect on future\u00a0relationships<\/a>\u00a0for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n \u20282. You make the relationship work … all by yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n Too many women get stuck in thinking that the relationship needs them to make it work. You may get treated well, but your partner isn’t actively investing \u2014 he’s just doing the bare minimum to keep the relationship going.<\/p>\n This causes you to wonder what you’re doing wrong. Most often, this situation is the result of having your self-esteem locked up in that relationship. You think that if you do more, your partner will come around and love you.<\/p>\n Then, you will finally be worthy of love. This is a self-esteem trap, and it leads to clinginess, insecurity and (in extreme cases) love addiction.<\/p>\n A relationship takes two people. If one is gun-shy \u2014 or not on the same page emotionally \u2014 there will be a disconnection, which can lead to this kind of cat-and-mouse game. You need to have a firm grasp on your values and your identity as a woman. If you don’t know\u00a0how to be happy with yourself<\/a>, you won’t know how to be happy in a relationship.\u00a0Keep reading…<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n More love advice from YourTango:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u20283. You have a vendetta against all men.<\/strong><\/p>\n With the anger that can accompany some breakups \u2014 or if you’ve had a number of bad relationships in a row \u2014 you might try to convince yourself that all men are bad. With that mentality, you won’t need to invest, trust or develop an intimate relationship with anyone again. But it’s not healthy and it doesn’t acknowledge that relationships are made up of two people.<\/p>\n Even if he was the worst guy possible, you had your own contributions to what made the relationship fail (even if your only “contributions” were that you ignored red flags, stayed too long or allowed yourself to be in a disconnected relationship).<\/p>\n For those women who have been in multiple bad relationships: They think they’ve had five bad relationships in a row. But in reality, they’ve had\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>bad relationship\u00a0five times<\/em>. My advice: Get out of the pattern. Get into you. Change your environment and you’ll change your selection process.<\/p>\n\n
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