5 Reasons You Shouldn't Do Everything With Your Significant Other

I wanted to do a followup to my last podcast about compatibility. Perhaps you're under the impression that you need to have a lot of common interests with your significant other and that you need to include them in your hobbies or with your friends (or even your family)? This podcast gives 5 reasons why you shouldn't get carried away into thinking your significant other has to be your twin.

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1. People need avenues for releasing stress.
2. Doing things alone and achieving things builds confidence.
3. When you are exposed to people outside of your norm, you learn new ways of thinking and can apply the best parts to your preferred relationship.
4. Having your own friends helps you see that you have "options" and are in your relationship by choice.
5. You can't meet all of your needs in one person!

We need to live the life that we want to live rather than the life that our significant other wants us to live; and then we can include our significant other in that life, just like they should include us in their life. The best relationships are those created when we have a complete choice and not because we were forced or because we desperately needed them.