A single life forever? Scientifically speaking, there are certain characteristics that make you more likely to be alone.
“There’s a lid for every pot” – that’s not entirely true, because researchers have found that if you have certain characteristics, you run the risk of being single forever.
If you have the desire to find a partner as a single person and go on one date after the other, but somehow it doesn’t really work out with a committed relationship, it could be due to your own personality. Psychologist Mark Travers reported on “Psychology Today” which characteristics could make you long-term single without you perhaps even realizing it.
These four qualities make you more likely to stay single:
Having children is not a priority in life
Most people want to start their own family at some point in their lives. If you don’t feel the desire to have children, the search for a suitable partner automatically becomes more difficult. However, there are also couples who decide together not to have children. Studies suggest that people without children experience higher levels of “happiness in the moment,” while parents experience more reflective happiness or an increased sense of life fulfillment. Research also shows that having a job is more important for life satisfaction than being in a relationship or being married.
Career-driven
If you are very focused on your career and put your job above all else, this is a clear sign that you are more of a single person. Relationships cost time, money and sometimes nerves that many career-oriented people are not willing to give. Above all, potential partners don’t always want to act second.
The rebels
If you hate how society imposes norms and values like starting a family, monogamy, and marriage, and generally don’t like being forced into patterns, this could be a clear sign that you’re happier being single.
The incapable of commitment
Anyone who generally notices that they have a problem with strong relationships, is carrying childhood traumas behind them or other things that become noticeable again and again when a connection becomes more concrete should get help. This pattern of avoiding commitment will probably not disappear overnight and ensures, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, that you end up single again and again.
So it’s important that when you make one of the most important decisions in your life, such as starting a family, you know what type of person you actually are. According to the psychologist, however, around half of all adults today have real problems with being in a long-term relationship and voluntarily prefer to remain single.
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