How To Tell The Difference Between Ego Love And True Love
The greatest roadblock most will face on the journey to finding true love is not in finding a suitable partner, but in overcoming the ego-based expectations we have about what a relationship is supposed to be like. These expectations have the power to make a relationship with great potential into a complete disaster.
Our expectations for our one true love come from our own lives — watching our parents and family members, social media, as well as from the romantic stories we’ve been told on television, in movies, and in literature. The images and stories of passionate romance play in our heads like a scorecard, and if our relationship doesn’t look like them, then we assume there must be something wrong with the person we’re with. Rather than see the person we’re with for who they are, we compare them to others and to an ideal in our minds that they will never be.