Throughout the years the social norm for relationships has evolved and changed and every era has had its flaws. While we cannot do anything to fix the past, we can make an effort to make our relationships into what they should be.
So much of the time we base our lives on what we see on TV. And let's be honest, we don't have enough positive role models.
Most of the popular TV shows that we watch convey relationships that are overly complicated and based on lies and mistakes. For instance, so many times I have heard people try to compare their relationships to Meredith and McDreamy from "Grey's Anatomy" or Ross and Rachel from "Friends."
But, if you really want to check this please feel free, all these couples do is fight and blame each other for everything. Occasionally there is a cute gesture or romantic moment that makes us all green with envy, but compared to the amount of time they argue or are broken up, it doesn't even begin to balance.
While these couples and their drama make for good entertainment, we are sane humans who are not located in a screen and we all have normal and stressful lives that do not need the added stresses of an unhealthy relationship.
We need to stop settling and thinking that justifying it with "we're just complicated" or "he/she is fixing me". I know it's hard to not be in a relationship, but if you're doing more harm than good then what's the point?
So, it's time to stop basing our relationships on fictitious characters and find people who don't just "put up with" us.
Find a man or woman who builds you up, works with you as a team and makes you genuinely happy ALL THE TIME.