Everyone will want to know the red flags because no one wants to get into a relationship. We know we should not continue dating anyone rude to servers, controlling, clingy, etc. They’ll just be leaving soon.
We’re too caught up with the red flags, but how about the good stuff? If a person shows plenty of green flags, you’ve found the right one to keep.
Before you dive in too deep and exchange custom engagement rings, check most of the green flags first to ensure they’re the right person for you. Here are some signs:
1. You align with one another
Alignment should be in all aspects—mentally, emotionally, and physically. You share the same values and, most preferably, want the same things in life, personally or professionally.
This makes it easier for both of you to work and grow together. What’s essential to one should be important to the other so that neither of you has to feel like sacrificing so much.
Ideally, you have the same vision for the future. One’s measure of success should align with yours.
Since you resonate with one another, what makes your significant other happy makes you happy, too, and vice versa. You place your needs equally, making it easier to compromise, juggle priorities, and collaborate.
2. You don’t need to have the same hobbies and interests
While your most fundamental principles and morals must align, you don’t need the same interests and hobbies.
You both should have differences in this aspect. That’s a good sign when the other person still supports you, no matter how trivial or weird your interests are. They wouldn’t belittle what you love doing as a hobby nor make you feel self-conscious doing it when they’re around.
Introducing one another to new hobbies and activities is an excellent avenue for personal development. You should both have the ability to do things both together and apart.
This is a great way to retain your identity, which is crucial even in a serious relationship.
3. You can be yourself
This means you can be who you are when with that person. You know you can speak whatever is in your mind without being ridiculed or judged.
They may be just as excited as what makes you excited, too, so you don’t have to hold back from expressing yourself. They make you feel comfortable and happy being you.
The right partner can indeed bring out the best in you. You don’t have to act knowing that the other person accepts everything you are.
Your significant other lessens your insecurities. For instance, you might now be more comfortable about the size of your thighs and many others. The other person doesn’t want to change you, making you feel right about yourself and accepted.
4. You can healthily criticize, argue, or disagree with each other
It’s normal to disagree and even argue from time to time. You should both be able to disagree without cutting off your emotional connection.
If you should argue with each other, it doesn’t have to make you feel like you’d be ending your relationship. Your significant other wouldn’t extract punishment like treating you with cold shoulders, tense silence, or pretension as if you don’t exist.
Regarding criticism, you should know how to accept and give any in a healthy, respectful way. Your significant other should listen to any of your complaints without canceling you.
This lets you feel challenged to develop a better version of yourself. Your significant other’s critique should encourage you to be better. Be careful about criticizing your partner since it can ruin the relationship if unguarded.
5. You can communicate openly and be comfortable with silence
From deep topics to trivial ones, you know you can talk to your partner about anything you have in mind. One green flag is that you can speak to the other person without feeling judged.
You don’t play any head games with each other, such as making the other person decipher your thoughts or emotions and vice versa. If it’s the other way, then it’s a red flag.
Also, as much as you’re comfortable talking about anything, you should be comfortable being silent together.
You Know It
You know it by how they make you feel—valued, respected, unjudged, but not put on a pedestal. They’re done with just caring about themselves. Now, they can pour out that love to you.