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6 Things You Need To Have BEFORE A Relationship
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Shellie Reneé
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Let’s get deep for a sec. Have you ever wondered if you’re a love addict before? It might sound like an odd question, but it’s worth investigating. While there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be in a relationship, sometimes, what we don’t realize, is it’s not so much that we “want a man”. It’s that we’re scared to death of being alone. And so, we’ll do whatever just to be with someone else.

We’ll have sex too soon. We’ll lower our standards. We’ll agree to be with someone we’re not really feeling just to have somebody to be with. Bottom line (and ugh), we’ll settle.

You can click here to check out 40 signs that you are addicted to love more than you actually want to be in a relationship (don’t be too hard on yourself as you read the list; we’ve all been there before). But if everything checks out and you’re not one, and you simply feel it’s time to build with another person, make sure you have these things in place. FIRST.

About Shellie Reneé

Just a woman who digs all things relationships. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, that is. I've been writing (professionally) for close to 20 years, including having two books published. I'm also a marriage life coach and doula. Sometimes I speak to large audiences or do radio interviews, but usually I'm sitting in my favorite chair, surfin' the 'net and penning stuff that I wish I had read in my early 20s.

Listen, I don't have all the answers, not by a LOOOOONG shot. But whatever I can do to spare folks any heartbreak, bitterness or straight-up drama, I'll devote some keystrokes to doing. 

That's it...in a nutshell. For the most part. Kinda. ;)

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