Are These 7 Unrealistic Relationship Expectations Hurting Your Love Life?

Expectations are a powerful thing. If yours are too high, then you’ll be constantly disappointed. If they’re too low, then you’ll never get what you want and deserve, from yourself or others. But did you know that your expectations determine your reality? If you don’t think you can succeed in reaching your goals, you won’t. Why work hard to reach goals you believe aren’t possible?

The worst thing that can happen when your expectations are too low is that you won’t get what you want. But what happens when they are too high, or otherwise unrealistic? Unrealistic expectations aren’t in-line with reality. And if your head is in the clouds, and your expectations aren’t realistic, it will cause you a lot of trouble and heartache.

Unrealistic expectations in life can sabotage us in any area, including dating and relationships. Usually, when a person is unable to find a good relationship, one of two things is going on. They either don’t have enough standards for their dating partners and get taken advantage of — otherwise known as having too low of expectations. Or, their standards are way too high and unrealistic. Believe it or not, you can also have both too low and too high standards at the same time. We’ve covered low standards in dating before and how those can ruin your chances at love. But…