Melannie Gregersen argues you should only date someone with ambition, interests, and clear relationship goals. Look for a partner who wants love, excitement, passion, and closeness, not someone who settles or drifts.
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You wanna make sure that the other person actually has goals. If there's somebody who's like, "I don't have any ambition for life," well, they don't really— they're not gonna be very fun to be around. As a matter of fact, they're probably going to drain the energy out of you. But if instead they have interests and goals and goals for how they want a relationship to be, you know, there's like, "If I just get a relationship and I just settle for it, that's enough," versus someone who's like, "No, I want love. I want excitement. I want passion. I want closeness, and they have those goals, they're going to be a much better partner, right?