12 Signs Your Expectations For Love Are Too Damn High
By Heidi Priebe
1. You hold other people to standards that you don’t meet yourself.
You want someone who’s well traveled, financially secure and in possession of abs that one could grate cheese on. But you fit none of those requirements yourself. You want your partner to meet a long list of expectations, but you’d be direly offended to find that they have a list of expectations for you.
2. You want someone who takes initiative — but you never take it yourself.
You want someone who texts back promptly, plans exciting dates and goes out of their way to make you happy — but you aren’t willing to do any of those things for them. At least, not until they go out of their way first. You want to receive first, give second.
3. You’re exclusively interested in people who are ‘hard to get.’
You aren’t interested in the people who are interested in you — you want only the unattainable ones; the ones who seem like a challenge. This is a classic sign that you aren’t interested in actual love — you’re only interested in boosting your ego by attaining people you perceive to be out of your league.
