9 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Relationship Prospects
By The Frisky. Posted on .
Some people are good at relationships. They meet potential partners with effortless ease wherever they go—on the subway, in the elevator at work, on line at the grocery store. They strike up conversations with men in bars, get fixed up by friends, and actually enjoy (ugh!) online dating. The people they encounter are emotionally available and commitment-ready, and they sail smoothly into monogamous relationships as if on command.
And then there are those who are more relationship challenged. Mystified by how to transform a Match.com profile into a boyfriend or how to meet a guy who's not a total commitmentphobe. You probably feel like you're trapped in an '80s movie, forever destined to be on the outside, looking longingly in at all the couples with their hands resting in the back pocket of each other's acid-washed jeans. How do they do it? you wonder, as you force yourself to "put yourself out there" yet again, gritting your teeth through another brutal bout of online dating.
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If the relationship you so desperately desire keeps remaining just out of reach, there may be internal blocks to intimacy standing in your way. Rather than muscling through an endless barrage of bad dates and painful, short-lived relationships, take a time out to identify any deep-seated beliefs and counter-productive patterns that could be holding you back. Click through for barriers that might be sabotaging your relationship efforts—and how to kiss them goodbye.
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Written by Jennifer Garam for The Frisky.
