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Why You Should Be Single for a Time Between Relationships
If you tend to jump from one relationship to the next without a break, here’s why you might want to change that.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to find your person. Wanting love and that (mostly) happy ever after relationship is natural. But sometimes, in order to find love, we need to take a break from the search.
After a breakup, it’s a good idea to take some time to be single. It may feel a little lonely at first but in the end, some time spent alone can do you a world of good and prepare you for your next relationship.
What can that time alone do for you?
Help you move forward
When we leap from one relationship to the next without a break, we tend to avoid dealing with things from our past relationship. By not dealing with those things, we can end up bringing them into our next relationship — and the one after that.
When you take the time to be alone, however, you can look back on your last relationship — and all the ones that came before it, if you’ve never done this before. You can look at them with the clarity that often comes with hindsight. You can see the mistakes you made, those your partner made, and the way to avoid…
