Your Love Life Won’t Improve Until You Grow in Self-Awareness

Simple strategies to improve your relationships

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The idea of love is great. In real life, though, maintaining a long-lasting, healthy relationship requires personal growth. There’s a little trio of self beliefs you can work on that does wonders for your relationships:

Recognizing your feelings, confidence, and knowing your worth. Lumped together, these three make up self-awareness.

Self-awareness centers around emotions. Whether you like it or not, emotions are the core of romantic relationships. Your arguments, chemistry, commitment, and communication are often based on feelings. According to research, being in touch with your emotions is associated with more satisfaction in romantic relationships.

If you’re low in self-awareness, you might:

• Struggle to identify your own feelings.
• Be unaware of why you’re feeling a certain way. Anger, sadness, anxiety etc., seem to hit you out of nowhere.
• Have trouble recognizing your strengths or naming what you are good at.
• Feel unworthy or less important/significant than those around you.
• Be unaware of how your emotions affect those around…