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Are You Ready to Invite Love Into Your Life?
Finding love takes a little more than just deciding it’s time
There may be times in your life when you just want to be on your own for a while. Maybe you’d like to delve into your work, focus on yourself and enjoy life solo. However, when you return to thoughts of wanting to be in love again, it’s important to be in the proper frame of mind to welcome love back into your life.
We often think it’s as simple as deciding that we’re ready to date and find love again. But it can take a little more effort than that. The good news is when you put in that effort, it can truly prepare you to find love — love that lasts and love that is healthy.
Consider these suggestions to ready yourself for love:
1. Let go of old resentments and hurts. You can only be accepting of the warm feelings love brings if you’ve done away with simmering resentments and aching hurts. Otherwise, they’ll keep bubbling up to the surface and “boil away” other positive and health feelings.
You can’t focus on love and all the good that comes with it if you’re giving attention to your hurt and bitterness that your ex cheated or lied or stole money from you. Work on letting those things go so you have space for love in both your heart and mind.
