Find a balance

People in love, and especially women, are willing to sacrifice almost anything for a relationship - their hobbies, friends, dreams, desires, freedom, and eventually even their own selves. Have you stopped hanging out with friends because your significant other doesn't need them? Do you only watch movies and shows on TV that your partner enjoys? Have you stopped playing sports and cut all your hobbies because your partner thinks it's a waste of time? Or do you sacrifice your time and comfort, providing a complete full service, just so that your significant other has space for their hobbies and rest?

Small concessions and sacrifices are sometimes necessary in a relationship, but they should be mutual. If you are the only one making sacrifices and changing everything, including yourself, in the image of your partner, a red light should go off in your head. Maybe you even feel internally that you are sacrificing too much for the relationship, but you don't know how to change it. Or you can scare away your doubts with the argument that sacrifices must be made for love. Patterns you have experienced from childhood are often to blame. Has your mother or father made sacrifices for the well-being of the family at the expense of their own needs and interests? The opinion of your surroundings and society can also have an influence. But do you want to live life according to the dictates of others and sacrifice yourself for others?

It's important to find a balance, because in a relationship where you can't be yourself and only fulfill someone else's dreams and wishes, you can't be happy. If you put yourself in the role of a victim and don't value yourself, how can your significant other value you? Self-love and self-respect are very important in relationships.

What should you never sacrifice for a relationship?

Freedom

Personal freedom is very important in any healthy relationship. Can you be satisfied in a relationship where you feel tied down and restricted? Where are you afraid to go somewhere without a partner, or do you have to constantly ask permission without being able to make a free decision? Never let your freedom be taken away and keep your boundaries firm from the beginning of the relationship. Don't be emotionally blackmailed or manipulated.

Life dreams and visions

Dreams, desires and visions are the driving force in the life of each of us. If you want to give up your dreams and visions for a partner, don't. A person who does not fulfill his dreams and desires withers like an unwatered flower.

Luck

It is important that you care about your partner's happiness. But you shouldn't sacrifice yours for the happiness of your significant other. Make yourself happy every day at least with little things that lift your mood.

Friends, family, comrades

Especially at the beginning of a relationship, people in love tend to spend every free moment together and leave their friends and family behind. This is normal and natural to a certain extent, but nothing should be exaggerated. Because of a new acquaintance, you should not sever your existing ties with your friends or family.

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My own self

Don't try to change your personality, opinions or hobbies just for the sake of your partner. At the beginning of a relationship, some people try to impress and make a good impression. He is afraid to show his true face for fear of rejection. But that is the road to hell. If you build your relationship on pretenses and try at all costs to adapt to your love at the expense of yourself, you will never be happy. Also, how long can you keep playing someone you're not?

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The right one will love you for who you are. This is one of the key indicators to know that it is the one. If your partner doesn't accept you even with your personality or sees your sacrifices as a test of the relationship, it's time to move on. Also, be careful if your partner tries to manipulate or emotionally blackmail you. Don't forget that a healthy and happy relationship is based on mutual respect.

Don't stay in an unhealthy relationship

Don't stay in a give and take relationship. Don't be emotionally blackmailed or manipulated. If you live with a manipulator, prepare for the breakup not to be easy. He may try to make you insecure and manipulate you with insults, reproaches and ridicule. Don't let yourself be told that you won't find someone better or that you'll be alone. Every person has a soulmate waiting somewhere who will love you and see you as an equal partner. And what if you have nowhere to meet? No problem, come to our dating evenings in Prague. In one evening, you will meet face-to-face several single counterparts who desire a serious relationship.